Aimee Liu
@aimeeliu.bsky.social
#Author, #MFA prof, photopainter, Substacker.
Find me: https://aimeeliu.substack.com/
https://aimeeliu.net/
Some #Books: GAINING, CLOUD MOUNTAIN, GLORIOUS BOY, SOLITAIRE.
Find me: https://aimeeliu.substack.com/
https://aimeeliu.net/
Some #Books: GAINING, CLOUD MOUNTAIN, GLORIOUS BOY, SOLITAIRE.
Consider a #character or someone you know who gets sharp and pointed when surrounded by perceived menace. Now peel off a layer. Underneath the spikes, is anger the predominant register, or is it fear? Does this reaction signify strength, or weakness; defiance, or submission; pride, or insecurity?
Writing Prompt: Pointed
Visual inspiration + mental exercise to start your writing week
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November 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Consider a #character or someone you know who gets sharp and pointed when surrounded by perceived menace. Now peel off a layer. Underneath the spikes, is anger the predominant register, or is it fear? Does this reaction signify strength, or weakness; defiance, or submission; pride, or insecurity?
Writing Prompt: Pointed
Some of us get prickly when we’re surrounded. We grow defensive spikes and make pointed remarks. Our voices rise sharply, as if attacking, when honestly we’re just terrified.
Same is true of your #characters .
Here, then, is your #writingprompt:
Some of us get prickly when we’re surrounded. We grow defensive spikes and make pointed remarks. Our voices rise sharply, as if attacking, when honestly we’re just terrified.
Same is true of your #characters .
Here, then, is your #writingprompt:
Writing Prompt: Pointed
Visual inspiration + mental exercise to start your writing week
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November 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Writing Prompt: Pointed
Some of us get prickly when we’re surrounded. We grow defensive spikes and make pointed remarks. Our voices rise sharply, as if attacking, when honestly we’re just terrified.
Same is true of your #characters .
Here, then, is your #writingprompt:
Some of us get prickly when we’re surrounded. We grow defensive spikes and make pointed remarks. Our voices rise sharply, as if attacking, when honestly we’re just terrified.
Same is true of your #characters .
Here, then, is your #writingprompt:
The good news is that the #Big5 publish as many as 1 million #books each year. Not all of them get the royal treatment, but they all do have access to the Big 5 #marketing advantage.
It’s absolutely worth your effort to keep revising your book until it’s irresistible to #editors at major houses.
It’s absolutely worth your effort to keep revising your book until it’s irresistible to #editors at major houses.
Notes From a Big 5 Book Rollout Meeting
Or, why it IS still worth it to chase a major publishing deal
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November 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The good news is that the #Big5 publish as many as 1 million #books each year. Not all of them get the royal treatment, but they all do have access to the Big 5 #marketing advantage.
It’s absolutely worth your effort to keep revising your book until it’s irresistible to #editors at major houses.
It’s absolutely worth your effort to keep revising your book until it’s irresistible to #editors at major houses.
#writingcommunity Craft books for #fictionwriters offer scads of systems for mapping and psychoanalyzing #characters, but unpacking the inner life of people for #memoir can be more difficult because what we “know” can so easily distort what we don’t know about them. These tips will help:
Boost Your Character’s Inner Life
A deep-dive exercise for fiction and nonfiction writers
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November 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
#writingcommunity Craft books for #fictionwriters offer scads of systems for mapping and psychoanalyzing #characters, but unpacking the inner life of people for #memoir can be more difficult because what we “know” can so easily distort what we don’t know about them. These tips will help:
Not many #authors will get this much #bestseller push from their publisher, yet it’s essential for all to understand what the essential #bookmarketing and #publicity cogs are and how they work together to propel a book toward success in the marketplace.
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Notes From a Big 5 Book Rollout Meeting
Or, why it IS still worth it to chase a major publishing deal
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November 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Not many #authors will get this much #bestseller push from their publisher, yet it’s essential for all to understand what the essential #bookmarketing and #publicity cogs are and how they work together to propel a book toward success in the marketplace.
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Spotify seems to be deflecting here and trying to say "everybody's doing it". The point of a targeted boycott at one company is to send the message to anyone who is doing this: "If you piss us off, we can take you down like we did Disney or Spotify." Corporations need to fear us more than Tr*mp.
November 16, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Spotify seems to be deflecting here and trying to say "everybody's doing it". The point of a targeted boycott at one company is to send the message to anyone who is doing this: "If you piss us off, we can take you down like we did Disney or Spotify." Corporations need to fear us more than Tr*mp.
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Spotify becomes resistance target as they continue to stream ICE ads. Americans begin to boycott.
November 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Spotify becomes resistance target as they continue to stream ICE ads. Americans begin to boycott.
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@indivisible.org has asked us to boycott Spotify as long as they are running ICE recruitment ads. I think that is a good enough reason to do it, but I think this collective action does so much more than we realize. These are muscles and mindsets we are building now for bigger actions to come.
The Spotify boycott is about so much more than you realize
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November 16, 2025 at 2:31 AM
@indivisible.org has asked us to boycott Spotify as long as they are running ICE recruitment ads. I think that is a good enough reason to do it, but I think this collective action does so much more than we realize. These are muscles and mindsets we are building now for bigger actions to come.
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Boycott:
Spotify for their ice ads
T+Mobile for funding Trump's ballroom
Verizon for raising their rates out of just pure greed.
Spotify for their ice ads
T+Mobile for funding Trump's ballroom
Verizon for raising their rates out of just pure greed.
November 20, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Boycott:
Spotify for their ice ads
T+Mobile for funding Trump's ballroom
Verizon for raising their rates out of just pure greed.
Spotify for their ice ads
T+Mobile for funding Trump's ballroom
Verizon for raising their rates out of just pure greed.
Confessions of a #Playwright Cast as a #Dramaturg
By the brilliant playwright Kyle Bass, a special for all #theater lovers and dramatic #writers!
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By the brilliant playwright Kyle Bass, a special for all #theater lovers and dramatic #writers!
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Confessions of a Playwright Cast as a Dramaturg
Award-winning playwright Kyle Bass on the importance of being a dramaturg-- at least for awhile
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November 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Confessions of a #Playwright Cast as a #Dramaturg
By the brilliant playwright Kyle Bass, a special for all #theater lovers and dramatic #writers!
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By the brilliant playwright Kyle Bass, a special for all #theater lovers and dramatic #writers!
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#writingcommunity
There’s the promise of a new day, the sense of beginning, the coming of light and hope. Then there’s the pressure that mornings can inflict, to get up and go and prove yourself worthy. Whether you view morning with delight or dread, you can play with this #metaphor in your work.
There’s the promise of a new day, the sense of beginning, the coming of light and hope. Then there’s the pressure that mornings can inflict, to get up and go and prove yourself worthy. Whether you view morning with delight or dread, you can play with this #metaphor in your work.
Writing Prompt: Morning
Visual inspiration + mental exercise to start your writing week
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November 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
#writingcommunity
There’s the promise of a new day, the sense of beginning, the coming of light and hope. Then there’s the pressure that mornings can inflict, to get up and go and prove yourself worthy. Whether you view morning with delight or dread, you can play with this #metaphor in your work.
There’s the promise of a new day, the sense of beginning, the coming of light and hope. Then there’s the pressure that mornings can inflict, to get up and go and prove yourself worthy. Whether you view morning with delight or dread, you can play with this #metaphor in your work.
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Let’s all remember zillionaire Prince Muhammad, Ben Samine of Saudi Arabia cold bloodily, personally oversaw the assassination of WaPo journalist Jamal Kashoggi- assassins cut the body up in pieces with a saw. These are the kinds of people that Trump warmly invites to our people’s White House!
November 16, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Let’s all remember zillionaire Prince Muhammad, Ben Samine of Saudi Arabia cold bloodily, personally oversaw the assassination of WaPo journalist Jamal Kashoggi- assassins cut the body up in pieces with a saw. These are the kinds of people that Trump warmly invites to our people’s White House!
#writingcommunity. Looking for a #literaryagent ? Meet Kimberley Cameron! Full video and recap of takeaways in this post!
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Agents Today! Well Published Live with Kimberley Cameron
A recording from Aimee Liu's live interview with literary agent Kimberley Cameron
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November 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
#writingcommunity. Looking for a #literaryagent ? Meet Kimberley Cameron! Full video and recap of takeaways in this post!
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Corrupt 🤡🤡🤡
Corrupt 🤡🤡🤡
November 12, 2025 at 5:37 AM
“I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words—not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.” — Don DeLillo
#writingprompt
#writingcommunity
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#writingprompt
#writingcommunity
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Writing Prompt: Juxtaposition
Visual inspiration + mental exercise to start your writing week
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November 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
“I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words—not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.” — Don DeLillo
#writingprompt
#writingcommunity
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#writingprompt
#writingcommunity
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The most basic reason for writers to make a study of #personality is to avoid the fatal pitfall of writing all characters in your own mirror image.
Use this guide to analyze your characters’ core traits when writing your story.
#writingcommunity
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Use this guide to analyze your characters’ core traits when writing your story.
#writingcommunity
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Put Your Characters on the Couch
Think like a therapist to get to the authentic complexity of every individual in your story
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November 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The most basic reason for writers to make a study of #personality is to avoid the fatal pitfall of writing all characters in your own mirror image.
Use this guide to analyze your characters’ core traits when writing your story.
#writingcommunity
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Use this guide to analyze your characters’ core traits when writing your story.
#writingcommunity
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#writingcommunity and fans of #maxinehongkingston
You will enjoy my reminiscence about Maxine with the brilliant Ben Yagoda in his #podcast The Lives They Were Living.
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You will enjoy my reminiscence about Maxine with the brilliant Ben Yagoda in his #podcast The Lives They Were Living.
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Aimee Liu on Maxine Hong Kingston
Podcast Episode · The Lives They're Living · 11/06/2025 · 31m
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November 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
#writingcommunity and fans of #maxinehongkingston
You will enjoy my reminiscence about Maxine with the brilliant Ben Yagoda in his #podcast The Lives They Were Living.
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You will enjoy my reminiscence about Maxine with the brilliant Ben Yagoda in his #podcast The Lives They Were Living.
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#Democrat Aftab Pureval wins #Cincinnati mayoral election over Cory Bowman, half-brother of Vice President #JDVance
ALL RIGHT
ALL RIGHT
ALL RIGHT 💙💙💙💙💙💙
ALL RIGHT
ALL RIGHT
ALL RIGHT 💙💙💙💙💙💙
November 5, 2025 at 2:01 AM
#Democrat Aftab Pureval wins #Cincinnati mayoral election over Cory Bowman, half-brother of Vice President #JDVance
ALL RIGHT
ALL RIGHT
ALL RIGHT 💙💙💙💙💙💙
ALL RIGHT
ALL RIGHT
ALL RIGHT 💙💙💙💙💙💙
REPUDIATE REPUBLICANS
WE DID IT TONIGHT
WE CAN DO IT AGAIN
AND AGAIN
WE DID IT TONIGHT
WE CAN DO IT AGAIN
AND AGAIN
November 5, 2025 at 1:39 AM
REPUDIATE REPUBLICANS
WE DID IT TONIGHT
WE CAN DO IT AGAIN
AND AGAIN
WE DID IT TONIGHT
WE CAN DO IT AGAIN
AND AGAIN
November 5, 2025 at 1:29 AM
#writingcommunity What’s happening in today’s #writingprompt ? For me, it’s a near perfect representation of life under Trump. But maybe this picture summons entirely different references for you.
Here’s your #mfalore prompt:
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Here’s your #mfalore prompt:
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Writing Prompt: Can't STOP the Feeling
Visual inspiration + mental exercise to start your writing week
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November 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
#writingcommunity What’s happening in today’s #writingprompt ? For me, it’s a near perfect representation of life under Trump. But maybe this picture summons entirely different references for you.
Here’s your #mfalore prompt:
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Here’s your #mfalore prompt:
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Finally figured out what’s wrong with the #republican party.
November 3, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Finally figured out what’s wrong with the #republican party.
#writingcommunity If you'd like an MFA faculty eye on your creative prose, please consider the Take-5 packet option of my #Substack #MFALore:
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November 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM
#writingcommunity If you'd like an MFA faculty eye on your creative prose, please consider the Take-5 packet option of my #Substack #MFALore:
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