My debut short story 'Fish Fear Me, You Need Me' is now out in Clarkesworld Magazine! Give it and all the other incredible stories in this issue a read if you've got the time ๐
https://t.co/Dpn6aO7Y2z
"why do writers have so many ideas they never finish" well guillermo del toro said it best about frankenstein (2025) โ you can dream of something, but once youve made it, youve made it. wtf
any time my body image issues start to flare up i just remind myself that thinness is the most boring aspiration... you could create great art or learn a new language or travel the world...and you're focused on... this? how uninspired...
There's something gigresque about creating object in a vat of amniotic goop. This is how I'd expect 3D printing to would work in the Alien movies.
Imagine pulling your 1 foot tall anime girl statue from there and then tenderly washing it as if it were your newborn.
One thing I always avoid in my own writing and flag as an editor is what I call: stage directions. I understand how we, as writers, want to give a clear picture of what we're seeing in our minds, but too many can be considered telling and not trusting the reader ๐
One thing I learned from watching Hayao Miyazaki films is that itโs okay to tell variations of the same story over and over again. That sometimes you will need to tell the same story in different ways (often at different points in your life) until you can finally be free of it.
itโs a radical act to write a book while working full time because the system banks on you being too tired/overwhelmed to do anything else yet here you are making art that might spur creative thought and change in others and thereโs nothing they can do to stop you!!!