DongWon Song
@dongwon.bsky.social
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literary agent. newsletter:
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Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway Rebecca Solnit's A Field Guide to Getting Lost Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk Mike Davis's City of Quartz Each of these, in some essential way, taught me how to be a person.
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thoughts on grace and finding it in risking your life
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Grace Will Find You
I saw an old friend for brunch recently. It was a beautiful day and we sat outside feeling the cool crisp air and shared a Japanese-style pancake with the approximate diameter of a basketball, custard...
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27 days ago
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new Publishing is Hard on the singular joys of jumping in an alpine lake. spoiler: it sucks.
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Go Find a Lake
Recently, I climbed into an alpine lake. The rocks were slippery and unstable, the water near freezing. In the time it took to gasp, the cold was in my bones. I waded deeper until I found sandy bottom...
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Writing Excuses
about 1 month ago
Exciting news! Tickets are on sale NOW for our Writing Retreat on a Cruise Ship! Join
@maryrobinettekowal.com
@howardtayler.bsky.social
@dongwon.bsky.social
@nirele.bsky.social
&
@sandratayler.bsky.social
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This week's episode of
@writingexcuses.bsky.social
is focused on my own personal creative practices. I talk about how being bored is one of the best ways to keep moving forward towards your goals. This was a fun conversation and you can check it out below:
redcircle.com/shows/848724...
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20.41: DongWon Song’s Personal Writing Process
Listen to Writing Excuses on RedCircle
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woah woah woah, two weeks in a row with newsletters? is this habit forming?
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Surgery with a Shotgun: Why Genres Matter
Categories are made up. They will always be nothing more than an approximation of the thing itself. Nothing as simple as a label can encompass the experience, the reality, and the nuance of any indivi...
https://www.publishingishard.com/surgery-with-a-shotgun-why-genres-matter/
about 1 month ago
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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️⚧
about 1 month ago
"Part of how these terms persist is as a site of fracture. Not only are we trying to encompass an unencompassable thing, but we can't even agree on what it is we're trying to approximate when we say 'science fiction'" Must-read
@dongwon.bsky.social
essay:
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Surgery with a Shotgun: Why Genres Matter
Categories are made up. They will always be nothing more than an approximation of the thing itself. Nothing as simple as a label can encompass the experience, the reality, and the nuance of any indivi...
https://www.publishingishard.com/surgery-with-a-shotgun-why-genres-matter/
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being open to subs after the advent of generative ai sure is... different.
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Hello! I'm open to unsolicited submissions for the first time in ages... Looking for: Adult Epic Fantasy and Horror only Guidelines are here:
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Submission Guidelines — DongWon Song
https://www.dongwonsong.com/submission-guidelines
about 2 months ago
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forgive me for i have committed newsletter
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Publishing is Hard
it really is. occasional thoughts on how to make it survivable and keep from losing your mind in the process.
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about 2 months ago
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Doctora Malka Older
4 months ago
immigration is good, actually.
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Jurge Cruz-Alvarez 🦬
5 months ago
Gotta say, these protests and the city of LA fighting to take care of their neighbors is the most hopeful I've felt in a bit.
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You can see America as a nation built on a monstrous agenda of genocide, enslavement, apartheid. Or you can see America as a nation of people who - massacred, enslaved, disenfranchised - absolutely refused again and again to accept that agenda. I am so proud of that second nation.
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Writing Excuses
8 months ago
We are excited to announce that
@dongwon.bsky.social
will be joining
@maryrobinettekowal.com
and
@sandratayler.bsky.social
in Minnesota from June 15th-21st for our 2nd (re)Generate Retreat!
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Helen Rosner
about 2 years ago
Anyway, the truth is it’s not hard to stand up to genocide apologists. Just say “This is awful; I cannot fathom how any person could justify this.“ And then when they try to justify it you say, “No, I don’t think you understand: This is unfathomably cruel.” That’s it! You did it!
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i gotta be honest... i've played all 3 mass effect games multiple times and i have no idea what n7 means or why it matters. it really never comes up in the games? i was always confused why it was on all the branding/shepard's uniforms.
about 2 years ago
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Rosemary Mosco
about 2 years ago
Ode to butterbutts.
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it doesn't fly so no, mister detective bladerunner would not have driven it.
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about 2 years ago
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oh this is thrilling news for so many reasons:
www.npr.org/2023/11/01/1...
well. for certain definitions of thrilling I suppose.
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https://www.npr.org/2023/11/01/1209660753/these-american-birds-and-dozens-more-will-be-renamed-to-remove-human-monikers
about 2 years ago
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reminder to everyone to turn off your phones, don't take photos of people's faces, and please god use signal or something similar to coordinate if you're going to protests.
about 2 years ago
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Meredith Whittaker
about 2 years ago
PSA: if you take or edit photos of crowds or strangers with Signal, you can use our face blur tool to quickly hide people's biometric face data. You can then export the photo from Signal if you want to post it publicly. More on this feature here:
https://signal.org/blog/blur-tools/
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Blur tools for Signal
Right now, people around the world are marching and protesting against racism and police brutality, outraged by the most recent police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. At Signal, we support the people who have gone into the streets to make their voices heard. We believe that something ...
https://signal.org/blog/blur-tools/
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leaving october with a very different life than the one i entered with
about 2 years ago
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Elad Nehorai
about 2 years ago
Jews calling for a cease fire have taken over Grand Central ✊ Tell me again how they’re marginal. Absolute nonsense.
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Adele Buck
about 2 years ago
That Home Depot/milkshake analogy is going to live absolutely rent-free in my head forever.
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Idea for a blades in the dark style inventory system for D&D 5e. The core idea is that you would have a number of abstracted slots for useful items (think rope, bag of caltrops, a set of masonry tools, false identification papers). Everytime you find an inn or a shop you can reset your inventory.
about 2 years ago
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chaotic neutral. look, i read a lot of contracts and portrait mode makes sense for that.
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about 2 years ago
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gamera obscura
about 2 years ago
It’s Ursula Le Guin’s birthday. “You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”
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it's very very good
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about 2 years ago
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Chuck Tingle
about 2 years ago
BURY YOUR GAYS cover has been released today and theres something TRULY INCREDIBLE about it, something that bends timelines and melts away the edges of the void and brings tears to my eyes. can you see it? let me explain in a thread as you PREORDER NOW...
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Starting now! Come through and say hi!
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about 2 years ago
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shing yin khor
about 2 years ago
I'm starting to keep (public) development journals for my analog games projects! The first one is for a set-matching card game called Witch Please, which is also going to have a roleplaying layer. First journal is open to non-subscribers:
www.patreon.com/posts/911003...
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Jurassic Liz (Spooky Version) 👻🦖
about 2 years ago
Honestly, this broke me a little bit.
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Alex Acks
about 2 years ago
I'm not bad news, this is out today for any WoW players out there ☺️
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Mat Johnson
about 2 years ago
Devil: Here's the deal: you can be the greatest city in the world... NYC: Fuck yeah! [signs contract] Devil: ...but I choose your mayors.
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same, bud. same.
about 2 years ago
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it's nice to find out you're not the only weirdo who holds a contrarian belief
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Fullmetal Alchemist’s messy changes are exactly what make it better than Brotherhood
Fullmetal Alchemist’s two anime series show the difference between animating a manga and adapting it
https://www.polygon.com/23894643/fullmetal-alchemist-original-anime-2003-brotherhood-fma-fmab-manga
about 2 years ago
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Jess Zimmerman
about 2 years ago
Finally the New York Times publishes something good
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A Fitting — and Frightening — Homage to ‘The Haunting of Hill House’
Apparitions, black hares and time warps festoon the pages of Elizabeth Hand’s “A Haunting on the Hill,” set in the same moldering mansion as Shirley Jackson’s classic horror novel.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/01/books/review/haunting-on-the-hill-elizabeth-hand.html
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Jason Bock
about 2 years ago
Finished the Noumenon trilogy by
@marinalostetter.bsky.social
. Started out as a "let's explore the stars" series, and...well, you'll have to read the series to see just how far it goes (and I would recommend that you do it, it's that good).
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baylan's after the world between worlds right? that's what he's going for, right? like there has to be an entrance here now that the one on lothal is gone.
about 2 years ago
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there's no real difference between a cleric, a paladin, and a warlock. it's just do you want honey mustard, bbq, or buffalo for those chicken nuggies.
about 2 years ago
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Writing Excuses
about 2 years ago
We'll be doing a live Q&A on YouTube tonight! It starts in about 10 minutes, and we'll post the link as soon as it's ready. On deck tonight:
@dongwon.bsky.social
and
@howardtayler.bsky.social
!
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Gailey 🍉
about 2 years ago
Tomorrow, KNOW YOUR STATION VOL 1 – the collected issues of the comic I created with legendary artist
@lianakangas.bsky.social
– comes out everywhere books are sold. If you want to see billionaires get what’s coming to them, this book is for you. Here’s all the places you can buy it 🧵
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went back to cyberpunk after the 2.0 release this weekend and after putting many hours into starfield... guys, i think we were too mean to cyberpunk. or not mean enough to starfield. starfield is just... so bland. even the edgelord nonsense of night city seems nourishing now.
about 2 years ago
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UNIONS!
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about 2 years ago
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Writing Excuses
about 2 years ago
So, last night was *supposed* to feature a YouTube Q&A with
@dongwon.bsky.social
and
@howardtayler.bsky.social
, but the calendar technology daemons decreed that neither of them should actually know about it. We'll make it up to you, but we need to tidy up this summoning circle first...
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me playing a bethesda game 1hr: wtf are these faces so scary 3hrs: ugh these menus are so bad 10hrs: i hate this combat 60hrs: wow this game is awful 2000hrs: this game sucks 10000hrs: when are they making a sequel
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Reminder to new users: No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.
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Gailey 🍉
about 2 years ago
Finally occurred to me to put my newsletter link in my bio. Stone Soup features essays, recipes, and guest features from truly incredible writers. It's also the spot where I share what I'm reading and highlight upcoming new releases. god help me I really love the damn thing and maybe you will too
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Stone Soup
A newsletter by Sarah Gailey about the things we share. Come join in.
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trying to source a very specific device for a very specific need. For reasons I've banned my phone from my bedroom, but I'd still like to know what layers to put on to walk the dog on waking. I want a standalone, small object that will display current weather conditions and that's it.
about 2 years ago
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