Vivian M. Liu

Graffiti of a black cat eating noodles.

Seen on the side of a noodle shop in Chicago.

Small Wonders will be open to original flash fiction submissions this Friday, September 12th. We'll be open through October 31st!

We'll also be closing to reprint flash fiction on Friday, September 12th.

Send us your weird, wild, wonderful little stories with big emotions!

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I'm teaching a "Writing While Neurodiverse" workshop on Saturday, August 16 as part of the @seattlein2025.org. If you'd like to read the detailed booklet I provide participants plus see more details on the workshop and my Worldcon schedule, dive into this link. 1/2 www.patreon.com/posts/genre-...

Hi new followers! I hope you are having a lovely autumn day

society when I get an iced americano in the morning

Oh I totally get that. A big part of writing for me is balancing other people’s feedback and my own intuition about what works

“The canvas is the first draft” Brain chemistry changing!

This always happens to me!! Like, what do you mean I have to show the reader how I got from point A to point C by showing point B??

I am Obsessed with that giant baby penguin

Reading Jane Eyre for the first time. Dang this is a beautiful book

I’m on week 3 of the couch to 5k program and I feel great after doing my runs! I have a couple of races scheduled too, so I have something to work up to.

I don't know who needs to hear this but if you aren't making art of any kind because you are afraid that whatever you manage to bring to earth won't match the idea of the thing you have in your head:

I have never once succeeded in doing that

and I never will

that's queer divine dissatisfaction.

Ooo would love to be added!

Hi! I've created an SFFH BIPOC starter pack! Please share around! Also please reply if you'd like to be added (I'm making this an opt-in list)!

#sciencefiction #fantasy #sff #horror #writing
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Thanks for making these!

Hello new followers and people I followed! ☺️ Here’s a lil about me: I’m Mary, a SFF writer.

I write a lot about:
- sapphic romance
- women with swords
- deep sea creatures
- healing arcs

I also like gaming, anime, knitting, eating dessert, and hanging out with my void cat

Nice to meet you! 🫶

The thing about writing advice is that no writing advice works for everybody. Or even a large percentage of everybody. The "write every day" thing is like workshops, Clarion, MA degrees, how-to books, special software, etc, it is not for everyone. Nothing is. 1/-

we're living through a fast-paced technological revolution around green energy and it's getting about 1% of the attention it should. In a month, no one's gonna be burning coal in the UK for the first time since the steam engine was invented.

Panel one - Title: The optimistic novelist Image: a writer at a desk saying “Hooray! I've written half of my novel!!” Panel two - Title: The pessimistic novelist Image: a writer at a desk saying “Damn! I've still got to write half of my novel!” Panel three - Title: The pessimistic novelist, continued Image: The writer from the previous panel continues, more sadly: “And what I have written is terrible!” Then, somewhat desperately: “And I've told my editor that I'll have a finished draft by the end of the week! And what's the point of writing anything anyway when it will only get lost in a vast ocean of artificially generated content spewed out by the same corporations that are ruining our planet!” Final panel - title: The pessimistic novelist, the next day Image: the writer looks over their work and says “Hmm. Perhaps it's not quite that bad.”

My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books.

overheard at the coffee shop from a woman with a dog: “I love cosplaying as someone who owns a dog”

After some fumbling, we are officially open for early submissions from equity-deserving groups!

Looking for sffh stories (500-3500 words) or poetry focused on long-term relationships 🤖🧌🧛‍♀️

heartlinesspec.moksha.io/publication/...

I really need to get a website for my writing going

That an editor can love your story and still reject it for X or Y reason that has nothing to do with the quality of your work.

That short stories are an insanely competitive market.

That writing a good story isn't good enough if it doesn't meet the editor's taste.

Wait is this just a chocolate milk with caffeine

I’ve never had a mocha before and now I’m obsessed

Ken Liu On How To Slow Down To Do More Communicate. We tend to mistake deadlines for actual goals. Goals have meaning: solve the client’s problem, craft a good book, find the…

this interview with @kyliu99.bsky.social is so good —

"These mythologies are killing us. The more they make us unhappy, the more we think the fault is in ourselves. But they’re just stories. If existing stories are making us unhappy, what we need are better stories."

nobody will remember:
- your salary
- how “busy you were”
- how many hours you worked

people will remember:
- how many squid facts you knew
- if you offered others squid facts
- how you made people feel when you told them a squid fact