🤔 While we ‘stupid’ SF writers spend our days imagining how tech can make things better, all these DUNCE CAPS do is steal other people’s ideas then valuate it. We’re left holding their ‘Liz Holmes’ 💩 making everything worse. Understood. Future gen will know what losers they are. 👍🏾 ✍🏾
Will watch this with my Dad, BH. Please, y’all, please don’t mess this up🤞🏾…
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Writer’s Lament: For the 2nd time IN A ROW, I discovered during a (character vs theme) revision I needed an entirely new or different antagonist / conflict…DAYS before a submission deadline. Good luck rewriting Acts II and III, Chana! 🤦🏾♀️ 😢
"What It’s Like To … Build Space for African Speculative Fiction from Nairobi"
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2nd of the classes I'm teaching soon is an intro Writing the Other session on April 9 with Elizabeth Santiago. That's online and it's 3:30 to 5 Pacific Time (6:30 to 8 Eastern Time) and you can register here: www.theuntoldnarratives.com/event-detail... 2/3
My little mind trick: ever since my 1st sale in 2023, I pay myself each month to write—even if that means scrambled eggs for dinner. My ‘salary’ and every story sale goes in a HYSA (stock market too risky). I figured if I didn’t value my sweat and tears likely no one else will. But yes, it’s hard 🤷🏽♀️
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
Is the movie we all need to see right now. 👌🏾
Better than EEAAO and I love Michelle Yeoh.
For heaven’s sake, do NOT miss this one
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Time to polish your stories - or write one if you don't have something ready!
You haven’t lived until you’re holed up in a safe room with nine of your co-workers. We will only be there 20 mins tops, yet there’s always one who brings food 🤷🏽♀️ (OK, it was me).
Submissions for the next issue of Translunar Travelers Lounge open soon. From March 15-21 is reserved for writers of color; from March 22 until April 15 is general submissions for everybody. We are looking for speculative fiction up to 5,000 words. translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/
Every time I write a non-Western, non-European story, I have to go thru to remove my Western filter: all those social ideas from a US upbringing that just don’t exist in this hemisphere or language. I’m afraid a Western reader will judge as primitive or backward.
Too bad. 🙄 Writing it anyway.
Writer’s Lament: Oh, to behold the first complete rough draft. Something that began in your head like Michelangelo’s ‘David’ but looks more like Michael Bay’s Optimus Prime 🙄
I don’t know if any workshops are listening…
I need a class that teaches how to develop great log lines and elevator pitches ASAP. 💰
Just that.
Thanks.
I’m also like: the six people geolocating an ancient Persian civilization to St. Louis weren’t even trying 🙄
Congratulations, Eugenia 🎆
🙄 I had to magnify the pic to even see what you were talking ‘bout. Home boy blending in with the door 😂
Applications to join my next short story cohort are due on March 5. During the three-month period, you'll learn, write, receive critique, and polish stories for submission. I hope you'll consider applying: maryrobinettekowal.com/short-story-...
In order to do AaNX #5 I need to sell more copies of the other issues so I am offering a rare sale - Check out all 4 issues here - aanpress.com/aanorder.html (or use the links above). Buy any 2 issues and get 15% off the order, 3 issues for a 20% discount, or all 4 issues for a 25% discount.
It’s grueling sometimes making our protagonist deserving / giving them that ‘unavoidable’ ending. I think last night’s class with @maggiestiefvater.bsky.social and @odysseyworkshop.bsky.social on four-act structure made things waaayy clearer. 🔦⏳🛟
Great Episode. Great Article.
Cutest. Vid. Ever.
Remember: Mentorship applications are due 9pm PST on Feb 21! ⌛️😬
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I’m also bummed— I left a tall cup of iced espresso inside the M.A.C store in Jerusalem today. On the bright side, I did leave with two perfect shades of matte/satin lipstick. 🤷🏽♀️
My only interaction was as a freshman, he came to my university to speak. He found out there were 5-6 of us in the audience who had turned 18 after we started university. He brought us on stage and registered us to vote. I remember he had a very warm, ‘uncle’ atmosphere about him. 😭
📣 Check out the Feb ‘26 issue of @translunartl.bsky.social for this epic group of short stories (so many great ones that didn’t make it also)!
I’m glad for you, Rajiv. I wonder if I’ll ever meet Ted Chiang 🤔
New on the @odysseyworkshop.bsky.social blog: excerpts from a Q&A with author & Your Personal Odyssey guest lecturer @henrylienauthor.bsky.social, who talks about nonlinear storytelling & the relationship between unreliable narrators and linearity odysseyworkshop.wordpress.com/2026/02/09/q...
Can we get base amount funded in 24 hours? 11 hours until Day 1 is over. Only time will tell. To sleep now, perchance to wake ..... www.kickstarter.com/projects/526... #sff #booksky #sciencefiction #coffee #tea
