How to stay humble in an Asian family: Me: "Hey mum, look, I got my article published in this online magazine." Mum: "Were you paid?" Me: "No. But my short story in that anthology did get me USD250." Mum: "Peanuts!" #writerslife #keepbelieving

Interesting bathroom PSA in the Kuala Lumpur International Airport. It is nice to know that if I am on fire, someone will kick in the door to rescue me

16 hours on a plane? Hell. Views like this... almost worth it XD #scenery #clouds

@zoeyhedman.bsky.social Guess what I brought to read on the plane? Your story is next! ^^ @aanpress.bsky.social

Interesting selection of airport reading in the duty-free store. Ofc Stephen King and some regulars are there XD

Woot. After two months of prep and recovery from the move to Chicago, am finally flying back to Malaysia today. Hope I survive! Pan mee, chee cheong fun, hailam chicken rice, Tuaran mee, here I come!! 🤤

Most random thing my spouse said: "Lex Luthor has a shapely head" #superman #myspousefindslexluthorhot

Settling into the new apartment, and pumped at earning my SEO certificate yesterday. Zooming in now on African culture, driving license and writing new articles on Medium next~

Today is apparently day one of a heatwave in Chicago, of all things I forgot and decided to bake banana and chocolate muffins 😜

Now that I've settled in a new city, I start looking through open calls for submission. Then I stumble across one from Taco Bell Quarterly. Not sure I am qualified to write for such greatness XD

Moving into our Chicago flat. Waiting for the movers to bring our stuff. The living room floor will never be as clean as it is now

"The Poop Rule is the latest decluttering trend right now!" Germaphobes: "... I will have nothing left" 😑

Chicago is inspiring!

I was 'pressured' to order something called a Route 44 cold brew coffee. Look at the size of it! 😯

Still on my great road trip from Austin to Chicago, and was thrilled to be able to find a Malaysian restaurant near Dallas! It was so lovely to talk to fellow Malaysians at Malacca Cafe, and eat satay, roti bakar, teh tarik, and kon lau wan tan mee again

Super excited to see my favourite writing software @ellipsus.com has introduced yet another amazing theme in celebration of Pride month! I especially love Ellipsus' themes Forest and Dark for inspiration for my 3am jottings (I swear I'm not sponsored XD)

@indraladypotato.bsky.social What, you live? XD

For breakfast from a hotel stove, a buttery Abraham Lincoln-Frankenstein French toast topped with chopped strawberries for sweetness. I forgot to bring the sugar, don't judge me XD

669 words written, in the dark of a pitch black hotel room while my family sleeps, or tries to. Not much but I'm proud to type something~ #writingcommunity

This is my life now, post-packing. Recovering and Snuggling with a pillow on a lazy Saturday morning..until I got a fuzzy plus one. #cat #caturday

Super proud my flashfic got into the longlist of Fractured Literary Anthology 5 by @fracturedlit.bsky.social ! Didn't make it for the shortlist but still feeling pumped and grateful. Poured a lot of my soul into my little fic & apparently received some praise too ^^ fracturedlit.com/anthology-5-...

First stressful stage of moving house is done and more to go, but wanted to share how proud I am for my story to be included in the Our Dust Earth anthology by @aanpress.bsky.social! Can't wait to get back to normal schedule in the new place and writing 🙂

Have been crazy chaotic busy the last few weeks because moving next month to another state. Anyone have any house moving tips? And a strong pair of arms?? 🤪

"Our Dust Earth" is set to ship to AaN Central on Friday. Copies will go in the mail to KS backers next week, followed by preorders. If you would like to preorder a copy yourself of our SF anthology and included micro RPG - aanpress.com/aanorder.htm...

Me typing random names in LibGen for authors whose work Meta stole from, and uses to train AI: Hey! I know some of these names! @singingtotigers.bsky.social @mteasdalewriter.bsky.social

When the cat does not care about you being on a zoom call ie much pettings were dispensed #pets

I see people calling themselves authors. I thought this is when one publishes a book? I dunno XD #authorsky #writersky #writingcommunity

#writingcommunity #authorsky #writersky Wow! This guy published 8 books! I know they say "Write what you know" but... 😅 www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Please support this publisher! @aanpress.bsky.social deserves it for all their amazing work through the years ❤️

#rats #petrats Stepkid sends me a post about a fancy rat who nibbles on soap. My reply:

Our ✨March 2025 Issue✨ is now free to read online 🥳🥳🥳! Read it all here: www.havenspec.com/issue-nineteen

Been trying to keep to writing-related posts. But that is TWO green card holders (like me) detained in US, threatened to be revoked. Really feel for the wife waiting 4 hours at the airport to pick up her German long time-US PR husband, not knowing he was detained, stripped naked, denied his meds🤢

Super proud for my story 'Okeāna Four' to be published in the Our Dust Earth anthology by @aanpress.bsky.social! Preorder is available now, and apparently ships April 2025! It includes a mini-TTRPG of a hybrid dying earth system, with 19 stories to inspire worldbuilding aanpress.com/aanorder.htm...

Our ✨March 2025 issue✨ is ready at last! Subscribers can read it today, but everybody else has to wait till next week. Why not subscribe and feast your eyes on all of these literary wonders to behold? Subscribe through Patreon: www.patreon.com/HavenSpecMag...

I find this especially beautiful because sometimes I forget to stop. And because my idea of relaxing is to... write more. I can't even remember the last time I felt the urge to play video games, an activity I used to be addicted to!

I wrote my first poem! Well, the first I submitted for anything. Honestly I'm terrible at it, and can't quite understand the folks who turn up for poetry nights in the 3 years I was in Scotland. My Scottish friends are so good-natured though! such natural romantics. (The drinks probably helped XD)

There’s only four days left to nominate for the Hugo Awards, and we would love it if you considered us! We’re so proud of everything we’ve published this year, plus, we’re also eligible in the semiprozine category! Here are the issues we published last year 👇🧵

We received A LOT of submissions! To be honest... MOST of them are quite good! So many talented writers out there!🤩 We have some wonderful things planned - fiction, nonfiction, and poetry; and we're still reading! psychopomp.com/fantasy/

(Updated) So many exciting projects for 2025! - #shortstory per month pledge (5/12) - #Malaysia #fantasyfic collection (2/12) - fun mannerpunk erotica w/ @winter-shaw-writes.bsky.social - (hopefully) research trip to Malaysia later this year - medium.com/@ckohwrites #amwriting #writingcommunity

Trying hard not to feel disheartened. All 7 stories in the latest issue of a certain SFF magazine are ALL science fiction. I check other publications - SCIFI!! It's like no one wants to read fucking fantasy anymore. #fantasyficwriter #fantasyisdying #writersky #shortstory #writingcommunity

Vacation: Spouse pulls up a map with route from Texas to a USA city north Spouse: Ok, mark the attractions you want to visit! Zoo? Museums? Me, finds 4 food spots to eat across 4 states, including Nashville hot chicken Spouse remembering they married a Malaysian ie real life hobbit (2nd Breakfast??)

Quite proud of myself for writing 1,200 words of a new short story on a theme I will only call Junglepunk, only to realise I might have to chuck like 80 percent of it because the plot changed on me. Isn't that just 🙄 #amwriting #shortstory #wip #writingcommunity

My 3am wordcount, minus some 50 for notes! #amwriting #wip #shortstory

It is really hard to type around you, Cat. #amwriting #writingcommunity

Got my first rejection (or at least the first since 2012!) and submitted to another publication with ❣️❤️‍🩹! Someday my beloved frankenstein (not literally) of a short story will find a home!

Writers, Authors - Gonna say something SUPER unpopular, but it needs to be said: STOP USING CANVA Canva uses AI. STOLEN ASSETS. STOLEN ART. I know you think you're saving time. But seeing the promos make me sick, coz I know some artist got their hard work ripped off. Why not Canva? 1/2

This is my favourite new function of the Ellipsus writing tool: a timer. Past few months, this new collab tool has been killing it with the updates! New dark modes and forest themes, focus mode, and best of all a No-AI pledge! The beta (that I'm using now) is free, guys! Dump Google Docs!

Ahh, a pot of tea to write to, a bit of pastry.. I have all I need in life except for a demon butler #amwriting

If that lady is Malay, sir, then I'm a Martian (hint: Malays are not usually so pale 😅) Also "passion jungles" ha #vintagebook

I believe I have finally hammered out the history of a certain made-up world. In the meantime, I found these artwork by Matt Roussel simply breathtaking. Each piece is like a fever dream. www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/02/matt...