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i dont really have formed thoughts but i think primarily what im thinking about how is all sex scenes have to make choices on multiple levels, and i think it's actually fine to have culturally gendered descriptors, but also it can tip over into biological determinism if not handled carefully

every time i think about sex writing, i think about this excerpt from a book i read once that talked about how broadly speaking, vaginas get hard and penises get wet, and the emphasis of what is like physically happening in each circumstance is incredibly gendered (sorry i forget which book now)

ahhh congrats marty!!

i do joke but i love what i do and i wouldn't make a different decision if i could go back! i think having a "day job" is incredibly important to me personally! i would be a lesser writer without the very human interactions i have the privilege of having every day!

brainwashed early by the High Achieving Asian Disapora culture in my weird insular high school cohort; ruled out business (evil), engineering (too much screen time), law (can't handle being wrong occasionally) > guess i'm gonna do medicine

We lost some work because some authors who showed their weirdness and rough edges asked uncomfortable questions about the power structures too many people accept as given, and then a bunch of the "community" tormented them until they hid away.

Isabel Fall was one for starters.

everyone remembers what happened to Isabel Fall.

sometimes ur just in a poto mood... it's Universal... (if i did this we would get a beautiful playlist of 2000s era kpop and also singaporean DJ EDM tracks)

Early morning Boey holds a copy of CLUB CONTANGO (cover art by Nickolej Villiger). She wears brown-rimmed glasses and a Jurassic Park tshirt.

"Novels of female interiority have dominated literary fiction for nearly a decade." Happy almost 11 months of pub to CLUB CONTANGO. ✨️😮 Did you know!✨️ It has a not-young MC, and takes on "themes of migration and money"! 🎲📉

i am wearing the refresh button down at this point 😂

horribly aware that i, too, am sitting on Things That Other People Are Waiting On; so the cycle goes

my monday routine these days is doing my little rounds and seeing if there are any updates for Things That I Am Waiting On

ahh congrats!!!

impossible to tell if this is a not enough caffeine headache or a too much caffeine headache

guys not to be like this but i am sitting on some bomb ass short stories that are currently being run through the submission grinder. and i'm like ik patience is the game but man. one of them in particular i am actually quite proud of, it is perhaps the best complete thing ive written in a while

spent all day doing research to write one (1) paragraph and i'm really not even sure if it reads well, classic

oh my gosh, congratulations!!

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current resting state of our household at this moment is no more than three cats stay in the same room at the same time. time will only tell if we can achieve the rare four cat equilibrium

honesty i think ive done Official NaNo maybe twice in my life 😂 genuinely forgot that it died

going to do nano this year for the first time in forever wahaha wish me luck

Castlevania 2 text box that says "fuuuuuck dude i was gonna go to bed early tonight but no!! fucking curse".

booked a haircut, starting to unfuck my skin after vacation, we are Fixing the vibes

every few months i'm like hm why do i suddenly hate the way i look and want to delete every photo anyone takes and then i realize it's time to get a haircut

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i do find it helpful to have like a separate messier space to draft and then like a Document for editing LOL

🥲🥲 i do all my drafting in scrivener and then i export and do all my editing in word....

lowkey only because i've used it so long im stuck with it, but i do like the different tabbing options within each project, don't like how there's no good sync and no good co-writing options

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