Esmé Weijun Wang

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The Museum of Almost on the beauty of unfinished things

"...living with limitations means developing a different relationship with completion. Where others might see abandoned projects as evidence of failure, I see them as proof of making an effort despite all evidence to the contrary." www.reasonsforliving.co/p/the-museum... 👏 @esmewang.com is brilliant

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When the Thread Breaks Navigating the Difference Between Writer's Block and Brain Fog

"[Writer's block is] the internal critic gone haywire, the imposter syndrome that whispers you're not good enough, smart enough, or talented enough to tell this story."

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(@esmewang.com with some brilliant wisdom on writing, as ever)

Writing Dashboard | Notion The Pomodoro technique is a time management system that is used to work with the time you have, rather than against it. Pick a task, and work on it for 25 minutes. Then take a 5-minute break. Every fo...

I am obsessed with this Writing Dashboard notion template from @esmewang.com 😍 it's exactly like diving into a fresh planner ugh solid-utensil-238.notion.site/Writing-Dash...

I’ve found @esmewang.com’s free guides helpful and generative. This class could help get your memoir started!

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A really interesting (& brutal) piece about the commodification of Black identity in the art market in 2020-2022, & the opportunists who inflated art prices, only to devalue the same Black artists later

Esmé Weijun Wang | Memoir Writing & Personal Nonfiction Explore Esmé Weijun Wang’s memoir writing courses, The Collected Schizophrenias, The Border of Paradise, personal essays, and living well with chronic illness.

I’m teaching a new (& free!) class called Shape Your Story: How to Create a Full-Length Memoir with Confidence next week—It’s esp good for people who’ve written short pieces, such as blogs or Substack posts, & want to write memoir. Live class, but recording available: esmewang.com/shape-your-story

This is so helpful! Thank you—if it’s not TOO heavy, I think we could manage it. Much gratitude to you for this generous advice ❤️

I have POTS and did not know about coat hanger pain, but I think I have it! Is it possible to only have it in the neck and one shoulder/arm?

Good to know! Thank you. Copyeditors are my heroes.

Hi Dorothy!!! I love you and your books!!!!!!!!

eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same

Well, it all started with the employees of a restaurant called SUR, which stands for Sexy Unique Restaurant…

(And yes, this is true.)

My husband (who has a handicapped spot placard) certainly got a kick out of it.

Thank you for this wisdom! Can I somehow download your knowledge into my brain? I will trade you for a LOT of knowledge about the storylines and characters of Vanderpump Rules

Oh hi, Matt! Glad to have you join the discussion!

I feel like yesterday that video was EVERYWHERE. People I know who have zero interest in disability issues were sharing it in their bro Discord chats.

I could definitely be persuaded to remove it! Out of curiosity, for these kinds of sentences—how do you make the judgment call when your “mental ear” hears it a certain way?

You’ll know more hopefully in not TOO too long ❤️

Oh my gosh, what a fun response! Thank you so much; I’ll jot that term down in my notes. I could be persuaded that I use it too much, and there are certainly times when I could reconfigure the sentence to avoid the issue. (& thank you so much, dear friend, for the kind word about the sentence.)

“It didn’t help that Cyprian’s youth had also conjured a grotesque jump-rope rhyme, which shocked Sabina anew when she heard it in the carpeted hallways of the Asters or on the playground in the Santa Marias’ K-8 school." I would rather put a comma before "or on the playground."

(And yes, I did look up the answer, but I’m curious to know if what I found holds true in the minds of people who work primarily with literature.)

My husband had a really strong grammatical education (taught by the Jesuits, after all), and I often feel very in the weeds about such things.

A dorky question (and tailored-made, I think, for @bcdreyer.social): I often want to put a comma after an independent clause even if the clause that comes after it is a dependent one—because I hear it in my head as having a pause. What’s the rule there? What’s best practice w/literary fiction?

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It’s for me—a chair to have someone push when I’m feeling weak or too fatigued