DongWon Song
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Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com
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Why I Need the Birds
A Love Letters Feature by Amal El-Mohtar - November 2025
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November 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com
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I did not look at bsky before posting this and did not know we were having a conversation about author income. idk if that makes this post timely or deeply inappropriate.
November 25, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I did not look at bsky before posting this and did not know we were having a conversation about author income. idk if that makes this post timely or deeply inappropriate.
I had some thoughts on gift economies and what it means for publishing.
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An Industry of Gifts
I had reason to take a long drive recently, down the length of California from the Bay back to my home in Los Angeles. I made the mistake of taking the 5, saving me some time but the route took me thr...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I had some thoughts on gift economies and what it means for publishing.
www.publishingishard.com/a-publ/
www.publishingishard.com/a-publ/
somehow it is so fitting that the gacha got ya
November 22, 2025 at 3:09 AM
somehow it is so fitting that the gacha got ya
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.
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.
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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.
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.
oh this makes me think we're more aligned on Past Lives than I previously thought!
and 1000% agreed on Pain and Glory
and 1000% agreed on Pain and Glory
November 6, 2025 at 11:24 PM
oh this makes me think we're more aligned on Past Lives than I previously thought!
and 1000% agreed on Pain and Glory
and 1000% agreed on Pain and Glory
incredible! there really is no feeling like it!
October 22, 2025 at 4:13 AM
incredible! there really is no feeling like it!
there's a group called the dive aunties. let's go.
October 22, 2025 at 4:12 AM
there's a group called the dive aunties. let's go.
wanna learn to free dive with me?
October 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
wanna learn to free dive with me?
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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October 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM
new Publishing is Hard on the singular joys of jumping in an alpine lake. spoiler: it sucks.
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www.publishingishard.com/go-find-a-la...
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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 in 2026 in a voyage to Alaska
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October 13, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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 in 2026 in a voyage to Alaska
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October 12, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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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:
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20.41: DongWon Song’s Personal Writing Process
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October 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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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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...
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October 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
woah woah woah, two weeks in a row with newsletters? is this habit forming?
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🙏 🙏 🙏 Thank you!! I'm so glad it resonated with you! I told you I had thoughts about genre and genre divides!
October 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
🙏 🙏 🙏 Thank you!! I'm so glad it resonated with you! I told you I had thoughts about genre and genre divides!
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"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:
www.publishingishard.com/surgery-with...
Must-read @dongwon.bsky.social essay:
www.publishingishard.com/surgery-with...
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...
www.publishingishard.com
October 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
"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:
www.publishingishard.com/surgery-with...
Must-read @dongwon.bsky.social essay:
www.publishingishard.com/surgery-with...
hey! sorry i mostly quit social media and will probably disappear in a puff of smoke soon... 😅
October 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM
hey! sorry i mostly quit social media and will probably disappear in a puff of smoke soon... 😅
being open to subs after the advent of generative ai sure is... different.
October 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
being open to subs after the advent of generative ai sure is... different.