Writing without fear

Back in the 80s when I was 15, I wrote a school essay for the mid-year exam that the Singapore Prime Minister’s wife was having an affair with a gigolo.I got into trouble with my teacher who had been notified by her colleagues who read the essay.I asked my teacher this question, “You can’t tell the difference between fiction and reality? The characters are fictional, and they are nameless. Anybody can be a prime minister.”She continued whinging about the possible trouble it could bring to me and the school. I responded with a shrug.Guess what?Another teacher had a different opinion. She marked the paper and gave me a high score. She even made a copy and pasted it on the wall of her classroom for all to read and emulate. I found out when I got mobbed by a group of excited boys from that particular class.There you go… write without fear, edit without mercy.

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