Why must it always be so hard to write a book?

When everyone else disappoints you there’s always dogs

In this clip from 'How to Write a Novel,' the debut course from DeepDive, @salesses.bsky.social— acclaimed author of the novel 'The Sense of Wonder' — talks about the necessity of specificity in characterization. 📲 Stream it online or via DeepDive app for iOS + Android. ➡️ www.deepdive.audio

Noticed the kids bathroom didn’t have toilet paper today and it turns out my 8yo has been wiping his butt with his clean clothes 😣

Whew just sent my memoir to my editor

The growing trend of “maybe life is just a video game” narratives is fascinating

Writing is always such an act of faith, to think what you start will actually go somewhere and that you’ll be able to make some sense of yourself.

Academics is how we try to catch up intellectually to our own self-hatred

Um I could be on your awp panel maybe

Mel, you owe Mia the correct number

It happened to me: I just tried to swipe a physical book to turn the page.

If someone who asks what America is like just tell them about the msg scare of the 90s, when this country was so afraid of Asians people didn’t want their food to taste better.

Are you angry with your kid for doing something bad or are you angry with your kid because you can't stand the blow to your own authority?

What are your favorite novels about “bad” people?

It actually makes me feel sick to type out the number of Korean adoptees

I am looking for work in writing , events coordination , program work and operations. If you have admin tasks chances are I can do em and improve em. More info here rui-zhong.mailchimpsites.com

Going through my office bookshelf and thinking, why didn’t I read this, then finding marginalia in my handwriting

Advertising is what you call gaslighting that makes money

4 people should be the maximum for any reading

Wait Luka for AD?

Thrilled that WHEN WE BECOME OURS, the book that I wanted and needed as a young transracial adoptee, is a MN Book Award finalist in the new anthology category! 🙌🏽🙌🏽 Co-edited with the marvelous @nicolechung.bsky.social and featuring so many 🔥🔥🔥adoptee authors. Congratulations to all the finalists.

When an author you love turns out to be scum, instead of despairing you could take it as an opportunity to discover new authors.

For the final #ChannelOpenPod of 2024, I reached out to a bunch of past guests to check in with them about where they are, who they’re thinking of, and how they’re thinking about their work right now. www.keepthechannelopen.com/episodes/202...

This is really difficult because I read a lot of good books this year, and I suspect my answer would change from day to day or even minute to minute depending on my state of mind. But right now I’m going to go with @salesses.bsky.social’s The Sense of Wonder.

Show me your pet and what they’re named after

Is it not enough that math tortured me as a kid that now it has to torture me because I have a kid?

My thanks to whatever genius thought to put a slice of Kraft cheese in Shin ramyun

Koda Farms, known for Kokuho Rose rice (which I love) will close after almost a century. Keisaburo Koda, the Rice King of California, started the farm in 1927 but the family lost almost everything during WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans. nyti.ms/3AnEd05

It’s my birthday and one-year wedding anniversary and I’d love it if you got my book for someone in your life who watches either basketball or kdrama, even if they don’t usually read much www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/matth...

Finished @kellylink.bsky.social’s Book of Love and I just want more

'climate fiction set in the future presents us with possibilities we might use to know and contest the present reality' - excellent essay @salesses.bsky.social lithub.com/matthew-sale...

Once more for the weekday crowd: I wrote a craft essay about the role of climate fiction when it is too late for warnings t.co/yranf54zGD

What is the point of climate fiction-as-warning when climate change is already here and unavoidable? I wrote about clifi and what kind of stories might help us as we face the end of what we know how to story. “Craft at the End of the World”

What is the point of climate fiction-as-warning when climate change is already here and unavoidable? I wrote about clifi and what kind of stories might help us as we face the end of what we know how to story. “Craft at the End of the World”

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I just found a white hair IN MY NOSE

I'll be in conversation with Ted Chiang this Thursday at the Humanities Institute as part of a free public lecture and discussion. Join us in person in Tempe or watch from home via ASU livestream!

Why do we have to waiiiiiit

This convention center is like an ikea

Hello #AWP24! I'll be signing books today at the Astrophil Press table (845) at 1:15 and at the 7.13 Books table (1109) at 2:00.

Awp, like most everything else, gets weirder as you get older

I am very tired of very many things.

Maybe the point of life is to get so tired you embrace death

I don’t know what I’m tired of but I know I’m tired of it.

A good ability to have is to know what you’re getting when you’re getting it. Surprisingly rare.

Adam Phillips looks kind of like Neil Gaiman and I’m somehow comforted by this

“It is conceivable that we might learn to enjoy pleasures other than the pleasures of being terrified.” —Adam Phillips, Unforbidden Pleasures