Vivian M. Liu
@vivianmliu.bsky.social
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Seen on the side of a noodle shop in Chicago.
September 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Seen on the side of a noodle shop in Chicago.
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Small Wonders will be open to original flash fiction submissions this Friday, September 12th. We'll be open through October 31st!
We'll also be closing to reprint flash fiction on Friday, September 12th.
Send us your weird, wild, wonderful little stories with big emotions!
We'll also be closing to reprint flash fiction on Friday, September 12th.
Send us your weird, wild, wonderful little stories with big emotions!
September 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Small Wonders will be open to original flash fiction submissions this Friday, September 12th. We'll be open through October 31st!
We'll also be closing to reprint flash fiction on Friday, September 12th.
Send us your weird, wild, wonderful little stories with big emotions!
We'll also be closing to reprint flash fiction on Friday, September 12th.
Send us your weird, wild, wonderful little stories with big emotions!
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I'm teaching a "Writing While Neurodiverse" workshop on Saturday, August 16 as part of the @seattlein2025.org. If you'd like to read the detailed booklet I provide participants plus see more details on the workshop and my Worldcon schedule, dive into this link. 1/2 www.patreon.com/posts/genre-...
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August 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I'm teaching a "Writing While Neurodiverse" workshop on Saturday, August 16 as part of the @seattlein2025.org. If you'd like to read the detailed booklet I provide participants plus see more details on the workshop and my Worldcon schedule, dive into this link. 1/2 www.patreon.com/posts/genre-...
Hi new followers! I hope you are having a lovely autumn day
October 26, 2024 at 5:21 PM
Hi new followers! I hope you are having a lovely autumn day
society when I get an iced americano in the morning
October 6, 2024 at 3:22 PM
society when I get an iced americano in the morning
“The canvas is the first draft” Brain chemistry changing!
I got you, boo.
The first draft of a piece of creative writing is a radical act. It literally defies capitalism. You’re doing it for the LOVE. You’re risking possibility.
The blank page isn’t the canvas. The canvas is the first draft. Get it all down, then get to work. Joyful rigor. LET’S GO!
The first draft of a piece of creative writing is a radical act. It literally defies capitalism. You’re doing it for the LOVE. You’re risking possibility.
The blank page isn’t the canvas. The canvas is the first draft. Get it all down, then get to work. Joyful rigor. LET’S GO!
Like I wish the first draft could be extracted from my brain while I sleep. I find it painful.
September 30, 2024 at 1:57 PM
“The canvas is the first draft” Brain chemistry changing!
I am Obsessed with that giant baby penguin
September 25, 2024 at 4:09 PM
I am Obsessed with that giant baby penguin
Reading Jane Eyre for the first time. Dang this is a beautiful book
September 25, 2024 at 3:30 AM
Reading Jane Eyre for the first time. Dang this is a beautiful book
I’m on week 3 of the couch to 5k program and I feel great after doing my runs! I have a couple of races scheduled too, so I have something to work up to.
September 22, 2024 at 2:00 PM
I’m on week 3 of the couch to 5k program and I feel great after doing my runs! I have a couple of races scheduled too, so I have something to work up to.
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I don't know who needs to hear this but if you aren't making art of any kind because you are afraid that whatever you manage to bring to earth won't match the idea of the thing you have in your head:
I have never once succeeded in doing that
and I never will
that's queer divine dissatisfaction.
I have never once succeeded in doing that
and I never will
that's queer divine dissatisfaction.
September 18, 2024 at 3:08 PM
I don't know who needs to hear this but if you aren't making art of any kind because you are afraid that whatever you manage to bring to earth won't match the idea of the thing you have in your head:
I have never once succeeded in doing that
and I never will
that's queer divine dissatisfaction.
I have never once succeeded in doing that
and I never will
that's queer divine dissatisfaction.
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Hi! I've created an SFFH BIPOC starter pack! Please share around! Also please reply if you'd like to be added (I'm making this an opt-in list)!
#sciencefiction #fantasy #sff #horror #writing
go.bsky.app/6WxXXBY
#sciencefiction #fantasy #sff #horror #writing
go.bsky.app/6WxXXBY
September 14, 2024 at 5:05 PM
Hi! I've created an SFFH BIPOC starter pack! Please share around! Also please reply if you'd like to be added (I'm making this an opt-in list)!
#sciencefiction #fantasy #sff #horror #writing
go.bsky.app/6WxXXBY
#sciencefiction #fantasy #sff #horror #writing
go.bsky.app/6WxXXBY
Hello new followers and people I followed! ☺️ Here’s a lil about me: I’m Mary, a SFF writer.
I write a lot about:
- sapphic romance
- women with swords
- deep sea creatures
- healing arcs
I also like gaming, anime, knitting, eating dessert, and hanging out with my void cat
Nice to meet you! 🫶
I write a lot about:
- sapphic romance
- women with swords
- deep sea creatures
- healing arcs
I also like gaming, anime, knitting, eating dessert, and hanging out with my void cat
Nice to meet you! 🫶
September 16, 2024 at 3:19 PM
Hello new followers and people I followed! ☺️ Here’s a lil about me: I’m Mary, a SFF writer.
I write a lot about:
- sapphic romance
- women with swords
- deep sea creatures
- healing arcs
I also like gaming, anime, knitting, eating dessert, and hanging out with my void cat
Nice to meet you! 🫶
I write a lot about:
- sapphic romance
- women with swords
- deep sea creatures
- healing arcs
I also like gaming, anime, knitting, eating dessert, and hanging out with my void cat
Nice to meet you! 🫶
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The thing about writing advice is that no writing advice works for everybody. Or even a large percentage of everybody. The "write every day" thing is like workshops, Clarion, MA degrees, how-to books, special software, etc, it is not for everyone. Nothing is. 1/-
September 8, 2024 at 3:55 PM
The thing about writing advice is that no writing advice works for everybody. Or even a large percentage of everybody. The "write every day" thing is like workshops, Clarion, MA degrees, how-to books, special software, etc, it is not for everyone. Nothing is. 1/-
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we're living through a fast-paced technological revolution around green energy and it's getting about 1% of the attention it should. In a month, no one's gonna be burning coal in the UK for the first time since the steam engine was invented.
What a journey!
10 years ago almost 40% of UK electricity was from coal.
Today the UK's last remaining coal-fired power station is Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station in Nottinghamshire, England, which is scheduled to close on September 30, 2024.
10 years ago almost 40% of UK electricity was from coal.
Today the UK's last remaining coal-fired power station is Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station in Nottinghamshire, England, which is scheduled to close on September 30, 2024.
September 2, 2024 at 8:42 PM
we're living through a fast-paced technological revolution around green energy and it's getting about 1% of the attention it should. In a month, no one's gonna be burning coal in the UK for the first time since the steam engine was invented.
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My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books.
August 31, 2024 at 9:16 AM
My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books.
overheard at the coffee shop from a woman with a dog: “I love cosplaying as someone who owns a dog”
August 29, 2024 at 2:38 PM
overheard at the coffee shop from a woman with a dog: “I love cosplaying as someone who owns a dog”
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After some fumbling, we are officially open for early submissions from equity-deserving groups!
Looking for sffh stories (500-3500 words) or poetry focused on long-term relationships 🤖🧌🧛♀️
heartlinesspec.moksha.io/publication/...
Looking for sffh stories (500-3500 words) or poetry focused on long-term relationships 🤖🧌🧛♀️
heartlinesspec.moksha.io/publication/...
Moksha
heartlinesspec.moksha.io
August 24, 2024 at 5:06 PM
After some fumbling, we are officially open for early submissions from equity-deserving groups!
Looking for sffh stories (500-3500 words) or poetry focused on long-term relationships 🤖🧌🧛♀️
heartlinesspec.moksha.io/publication/...
Looking for sffh stories (500-3500 words) or poetry focused on long-term relationships 🤖🧌🧛♀️
heartlinesspec.moksha.io/publication/...
I really need to get a website for my writing going
August 23, 2024 at 1:48 PM
I really need to get a website for my writing going
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That an editor can love your story and still reject it for X or Y reason that has nothing to do with the quality of your work.
That short stories are an insanely competitive market.
That writing a good story isn't good enough if it doesn't meet the editor's taste.
That short stories are an insanely competitive market.
That writing a good story isn't good enough if it doesn't meet the editor's taste.
August 20, 2024 at 4:09 AM
That an editor can love your story and still reject it for X or Y reason that has nothing to do with the quality of your work.
That short stories are an insanely competitive market.
That writing a good story isn't good enough if it doesn't meet the editor's taste.
That short stories are an insanely competitive market.
That writing a good story isn't good enough if it doesn't meet the editor's taste.
I’ve never had a mocha before and now I’m obsessed
August 20, 2024 at 5:30 PM
I’ve never had a mocha before and now I’m obsessed
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this interview with @kyliu99.bsky.social is so good —
"These mythologies are killing us. The more they make us unhappy, the more we think the fault is in ourselves. But they’re just stories. If existing stories are making us unhappy, what we need are better stories."
"These mythologies are killing us. The more they make us unhappy, the more we think the fault is in ourselves. But they’re just stories. If existing stories are making us unhappy, what we need are better stories."
Ken Liu On How To Slow Down To Do More
Communicate. We tend to mistake deadlines for actual goals. Goals have meaning: solve the client’s problem, craft a good book, find the…
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August 18, 2024 at 7:25 PM
this interview with @kyliu99.bsky.social is so good —
"These mythologies are killing us. The more they make us unhappy, the more we think the fault is in ourselves. But they’re just stories. If existing stories are making us unhappy, what we need are better stories."
"These mythologies are killing us. The more they make us unhappy, the more we think the fault is in ourselves. But they’re just stories. If existing stories are making us unhappy, what we need are better stories."
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nobody will remember:
- your salary
- how “busy you were”
- how many hours you worked
people will remember:
- how many squid facts you knew
- if you offered others squid facts
- how you made people feel when you told them a squid fact
- your salary
- how “busy you were”
- how many hours you worked
people will remember:
- how many squid facts you knew
- if you offered others squid facts
- how you made people feel when you told them a squid fact
August 17, 2024 at 8:54 PM
nobody will remember:
- your salary
- how “busy you were”
- how many hours you worked
people will remember:
- how many squid facts you knew
- if you offered others squid facts
- how you made people feel when you told them a squid fact
- your salary
- how “busy you were”
- how many hours you worked
people will remember:
- how many squid facts you knew
- if you offered others squid facts
- how you made people feel when you told them a squid fact