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A Personal Catalogue of Fictional Asians Who Were Important To Me: Han Seoul-Oh
A series of posts I started in 2019 returns. Read the first post here. Today the new trailer for the ninth Fast and the Furious movie dropped…
Apr 14, 2021
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February 2021
Do It On Purpose
On having a brand and being a person
Feb 22, 2021
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Do It On Purpose
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December 2020
Time Is Real
It’s the last day of a year of unrelenting nightmares. I don’t need to re-catalogue them here. We’ve all had our own versions of surviving this year and…
Dec 31, 2020
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Time Is Real
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Drinking from a Poisoned Well
This post was originally published on Sarah Gailey’s newsletter Here’s the Thing for a series they ran on personal canons. You can read the whole series…
Dec 16, 2020
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Make Shitty Tables
I make a lot of tables. It turns out that a lot of what a person needs is a flat surface to put stuff on. So… tables. Tables for building other things…
Dec 2, 2020
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November 2020
On Anxiety
When I started therapy I told my psychologist that I didn’t experience anxiety. I thought of it as a thing other people indulged in. She is a…
Nov 3, 2020
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On Anxiety
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October 2020
This Is Advice
Writing is hard. There’s no way around that. It’s hard to tell a story, in words, on the page. It’s hard to communicate character, emotion, plot and…
Oct 6, 2020
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August 2020
What We Talk About When We Talk About Canons
The idea of the canon is outdated, colonialist, racist, sexist, and anti-queer. It’s easy to say that this is only true because old stuff is…
Aug 11, 2020
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First, Be A Fan
This last weekend I had the great privilege and pleasure to see two projects I represented (and one I edited over a decade ago) win Hugo Awards. I had…
Aug 6, 2020
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June 2020
The Only Lasting Truth Is Change
Recently I watched a livestream of Toshi Reagon’s adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower into a staged opera. It was an early…
Jun 3, 2020
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May 2020
Favorite Openings: A Darker Shade of Magic
The last example I want to dig into is V.E. Schwab’s A Darker Shade of Magic. I wanted something very recent and a genre example but even without those…
May 29, 2020
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Favorite Openings: A Darker Shade of Magic
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Favorite Openings: The Killing Floor
I see a lot of people on my timeline making fun of Lee Child. They mock his prose, his characterizations, his approach. And, yeah, sure, there are…
May 28, 2020
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