there should be about 5 to 6 times as many magazines as there currently are for criticism and they should all pay on average 2 to 3 times as much as they currently do, and it should be easier to write for them. without that i think american literary culture is gonna continue to feel weirdly stagnant
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Why I Need the Birds
A Love Letters Feature by Amal El-Mohtar - November 2025
Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com
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I did not look at bsky before posting this and did not know we were having a conversation about author income. idk if that makes this post timely or deeply inappropriate.
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somehow it is so fitting that the gacha got ya
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Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness
Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
Rebecca Solnit's A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk
Mike Davis's City of Quartz
Each of these, in some essential way, taught me how to be a person.
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oh this makes me think we're more aligned on Past Lives than I previously thought!
and 1000% agreed on Pain and Glory
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i feel seen
02.11.2025 01:29 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
incredible! there really is no feeling like it!
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thank you! π
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there's a group called the dive aunties. let's go.
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correct
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wanna learn to free dive with me?
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five headshots on top of Mary Robinette, Erin, DongWon, Howard and Sandra. Words underneath them saying Writing Excuses Retreats: Alaska Cruise 2026 then underneath that more words that say September 3rd-11th, 2026, Sailing out of Seattle WA. Writingexcuse.com/retreats. Then an image of the writing excuses logo in the right bottom corner and an outline of a cruise ship on the bottom left corner.
Exciting news! Tickets are on sale NOW for our Writing Retreat on a Cruise Ship! Join @maryrobinettekowal.com @howardtayler.bsky.social @dongwon.bsky.social @nirele.bsky.social & @sandratayler.bsky.social in 2026 in a voyage to Alaska
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20.41: DongWon Songβs Personal Writing Process
Listen to Writing Excuses on RedCircle
This week's episode of @writingexcuses.bsky.social is focused on my own personal creative practices. I talk about how being bored is one of the best ways to keep moving forward towards your goals. This was a fun conversation and you can check it out below:
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π π π Thank you!! I'm so glad it resonated with you! I told you I had thoughts about genre and genre divides!
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Surgery with a Shotgun: Why Genres Matter
Categories are made up. They will always be nothing more than an approximation of the thing itself. Nothing as simple as a label can encompass the experience, the reality, and the nuance of any indivi...
"Part of how these terms persist is as a site of fracture. Not only are we trying to encompass an unencompassable thing, but we can't even agree on what it is we're trying to approximate when we say 'science fiction'"
Must-read @dongwon.bsky.social essay:
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hey! sorry i mostly quit social media and will probably disappear in a puff of smoke soon... π
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truly
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being open to subs after the advent of generative ai sure is... different.
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I need to get that one! I need some chairs π
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a screenshot of an inbox with a 118 new emails notification badge. everything is fine.
y'all are coming through...
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adult only at this time
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I also really recommend anything from Lost Art Press/Christopher Schwarz as a place to start with design focused on hand-tool techniques!
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would love to hear your thoughts on it! you have such interesting and thoughtful approaches to genre and genre boundaries!
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