where are my Ted Chiang stans to back me up on this?
mom-brain is sick bc how did I successfully forget a major spoiler to The Last of Us
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Princess Mononoke (forever my favorite) & one element in its worldbuilding toolkit: amandakallis.substack.com/p/1glimpse-2...
1.Glimpse 2.Gossip 3.Complicate
Like a box cake for worldbuilding. Just add egg
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looking back on my best writing year...that had near-zero outward signs of success:
a year in reading & writing
inhale / exhale
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I wrote about Jeff Vandermeer's BORNE & stopping to smell the strange roses
& a murderous, flying bear
A brief ode to Jeff Vandermeer's "Borne"
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a brief speculative fiction newsletter for your January blues
Anatomy of a Traffic Jam
Oh it's about POV again
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wrote about a favorite speculative niche, when the genre is a source of suspense— ft. karen russell, samanta schweblin, china miéville, sofia samatar, and more...
the trees walk
genre trouble
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George Orwell is uncannily good at clocking AI, and more thoughts, because I can't stop writing about this for some reason:
zombie language
George Orwell on ChatGPT
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someone broke into my car, found nothing to steal, & threw my copy of Euripides plays on the ground
a Sunday (lol) speculative fiction substack on writing "literary" sex, avoiding cringe, and more 😈
how to f*ck an alien
a 10-step guide
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wrote some thoughts on worldbuilding, in conversation with two pieces I haven't been able to get out of my head lately: Ted Chiang's lecture "On Being a Cyborg" & @vajra.me 's essay "The Lone and Level Sands" (vajra.me/2023/05/06/t... )
the tomb of the unknown cyborg
Imagined Communities, our global worldbuilding exercise
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💀 short substack about Buehlman's Between Two Fires & retracing the trauma plot 💀 amandakallis.substack.com/p/can-trauma...
can trauma plots forgive?
returning to the root
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new substack on cozy fiction, from your local cold-hearted romantic
a weighted blanket 4 ur brain
on content(ment)
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recent speculative reads for October 👻🎃
what scares me
pretty things in a fearful season
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Lyra, observing from her perch above the writing desk, waits for the moment to pounce on my head
want to know what books I've thrown across the room in a fit of anger?
winter is coming
rereading A Game of Thrones
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pls look at this house, the menacing vibe, the scalp sconces, the ball sack on tenterhooks. we need to bring back "yuppie" (derogatory) www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/r...
need to bottle this and ship it to the whole community (in a not-passive-aggressive way)
Lincoln Michel@thelincoln.bsky.social · 2y agoBlogged a little about "TV prose" and how to avoid it when writing fiction
my most popular substack of 2024! here’s to all you weird and horny writers out there:
how to f*ck an alien
a 10-step guide
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Haven't worn hard pants in months so here I am writing about fashion! (but actually writing about writing, ofc)
the many deaths of personal style
our screentime is telling on us
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Two detectives came to my door & my first assumption was that it was to arrest me for my crimes? What crimes, Amanda?
mickey 17: the rare movie to center what I can only describe as 'wholesome horniness'