Check out my story in Black Fox Literary Magazine (Issue 29)! Stoked to have found a home for this piece about the mixed race experience 🙂 my first short story publication! *cue excited screaming* Thank you to the lovely editors for their work on this issue! blackfoxlitmag.com/current-issue/

Reading one of my favorite author’s newest book and ch1 is already giving me chills 🫠 Marie Lu, the woman you are 🙌🏻 “Everything can be more beautiful. And because it has the potential to be more beautiful later, everything suddenly feels less beautiful now.” -Red City, Marie Lu

I just entered #RevPit #10Queries. Enter now for a chance to win free feedback on your query and 1st 5 pages

Am doing the thing everyone says not to do… writing a new novel instead of finishing the old one 🤷🏻‍♀️ Someday I hope I’ll rewrite it. There are just too many foundational problems due to me being at lower skill level when I started compared to now. 1 chapter into new book, feeling optimistic 👍

Halfway thru drafting the book, and realizing that one character should’ve been unalived in chapter 2… the urge to revise mid-draft… it’s too strong 😭

The midpoint of my novel is within sight… only 3 more chapters to write… If I’ve learned anything from this process, it’s that I take a long time to draft 😂

Just finished Don’t Let the Forest In by C.G. Drews, and wow…. one of THE best books I’ve read in a long time. My head is still spinning from that ending. The lush prose, memorable characters, haunting dark academia setting… all absolutely phenomenal.

Mostly my 9-5 day job :) and also dance! I’m a hip-hop dancer and spend many of my evenings at practice with my team. That’s why I love audiobooks. Helps me “read” during drives or in-between moments. #CampRevPit #CRPLunaMoths

A Power Inked in Venom has… 🗡️ calligraphy brush-to-throat 🔥 enemies-to-lovers 👑 MC becomes the villain 🖌️ magic is monstrous 🥈 second chance romance 👥 siblings: one light, one dark #CampRevPit #CRPLunaMoths

My MC would definitely blast “Vampire” by Olivia Rodrigo on aux. She and her love interest start out a bit toxic to say the least 🫣 but it just makes it all the sweeter when they figure out how to love each other right! #CRPLunaMoths #CampRevPit

A quote from my book’s paranoid, perfectionist love interest! “We are in the business of perfection, Zhou. Mistakes are no better than betrayal.” #CRPLunaMoths #CampRevPit

Let’s just say she’s a little unhinged “Her screams reach a high, keening pitch, and I hum along to the sound, as though it were a song plucked sweet from the pipa.” #CampRevPit #CRPLunaMoths

#CRPLunaMoths excited for camp! I’ll be working on my Asian-inspired YA romantasy! “Daiyu kills with calligraphy. Tai wants his oppressors dead. If she fails to escape his deadly prison (and their growing attraction), he’ll use her dark power to assasinate hundreds—including her own mother.”

My Roman Empire is writing traumatic flashbacks to a character’s childhood

Reintroducing myself! In honor of my mom, the person who first ignited my passion for reading and stories, I’ve decided to use her maiden name in my pen name. She is my inspiration, in writing and in life! Hello as Ann Chow!

Vampire by Olivia Rodrigo is the official theme song for the meet cute of my romantasy 🙌🏻 Enemies to lovers for real

just know, behind every piece of writing and art publicly shared is a deep cavern of unfinished secret projects we talk about with 2-3 select people, and an even deeper, darker abyss containing only the most ancient of lore known only to us and the imaginary characters we've created

I haven’t been on Bluesky as much this month, but seeing all the amazing #chaospit posts reminded me just how awesome this writing community is. You all inspire me in my writing journey!

Met my goal today to finish the chapter I was writing! Celebrating small wins 🎉

After countless attempts at outlines that just didn’t work, a 20k-word failed pantsing attempt, and a whole lot of experimentation with different story structures, I’ve finally done it: outlined my first novel from start to finish! Feeling on top of the world. Now comes the writing :)

7 pages of potential first lines and I think I’ve finally found the one 🤩

Oh don’t mind me I’m just cackling excitedly and thinking of ways to make my morally gray MMC even more psycho than he already is

Writing is really hard. I know practice is essential to growth. But I don’t want to just practice — I want to practice in the right way. Figure out exactly how the experts got good, and then try to replicate the process myself. But what exactly is that right way? Hope someday I can figure it out.

My favorite past-time is giving my MCs wildly traumatic backstories. Red flag? #writingcommunity

BREAKING BAD x THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS A debt-ridden alchemist and ruthless gang lord sell illegal poisons in a world where venom dealing = execution 🌎 100% Asian cast 🧪 Poison cartels ✍🏻 Calligraphy magic 🪭 Villainous MC #W #YA #RF #P2Ppit

BREAKING BAD, but Walter White is a 17yo Chinese girl with dark poison magic, mommy issues, and a burning hatred for the gang lord who wants 1) her wicked abilities and 2) her heart. Will her thirst for power draw them together? #W #YA #RF #P2Ppit

Me: I need to finish my current #wip Also me: here’s 10 other novel ideas that I can work on instead #writingcommunity #amwriting