How My Job As an Event Planner Made Me a Better Writer

Thoughts from an event planner turned freelance writer

Alyssa Chua
Writers’ Blokke
Published in
6 min readMay 5, 2023

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I’ve been an event planner since 2012, about a year after I entered my first corporate job. Since then, I’ve done countless MICE events — conferences, seminars, expos — and other types of events, too. Graduations, sports events, family days, proms. I’ve even done weddings.

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Alyssa Chua
Writers’ Blokke

Event planner. Traveller and culture explorer. Writer embodying Gustave Flaubert’s mindset to “write of ordinary life as if one were writing history.”