sequoian.bsky.social
Prof & Writer - How High We Go in the Dark, a National Bestseller and NYT Editors’ Choice & Where We Go When All We Were is Gone. Minneapolis by way of the SF Bay Area and Hawai’i http://SequoiaNagamatsu.com - Star Trek 💫 and wristwatch ⌚️ obsessed.
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The distinction between "peaceful" and "violent" protests don't matter. The police will always crackdown on any dissent in a fascist regime. It's time that Democratic leaders understood that. Trying to make distinctions is futile. They will crack down on peaceful dissent by electeds all the same.
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AI about to tell them to stop saying "THE" Ohio State University 😂
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The one Saru centered episode? Absolute fire. Wanted more of that.
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That’s one thing with Discovery that never left me . . . Even by the final season I was like “I don’t even know this bridge officer’s name.”
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Even 10 to 15 isn’t enough to both develop season long arcs/world/premise AND develop primary characters. SNW of new Trek handles this better than most imo but we’re in an era where an episode like Data’s Day would likely never happen :/
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My partner used to freak out whenever I posted on Twitter. I think there, esp after say 10k followers, something shifts. You can say you ate a ham sandwich and someone would reply that ham killed their mother and run a pro turkey and anti-ham smear campaign against you.
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My inner writer voice as I’m working on a scene that just keeps getting longer is like “Trust me, bro.” 😎
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I’m at the stage where I’m gonna send off Act 1 to my editor shortly, and have a decent sense of major scenes/movements for Act II, but in this draft my main note is like “dwell in that place longer and fill with beautiful sad and weird shit”
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(Not to mention the fact that anything beyond a polite/clipped reply is anxiety inducing if I’m in work mode.)
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Sometimes sure if I don’t want someone messing with my head while I’m actively working but 95% of the time the outcome suggests the other person didn’t really want to engage. But I also live in the Midwest haha 😂 Polite Walls up is the de facto mode.
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When, in reality, the book they are reading is written by the person over yonder in stained sweat pants who is seeing if their free pastry coupon is expired and is in peak gremlin mode.
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B/c for most people? Writers and artists don’t really exist in the real world. The stuff they pick up on shelves at a bookstore? Must just magically appear or they think those people are all probably inaccessible to them, living in a magical compound filled with tweed and drugs and fairy tale money.
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Almost like they should, for example, assign reviewers who read in the genre they are reviewing. I was kind of shocked when I realized this isn’t really a consistent practice at the major review outlets.
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Fast-forward to my 40s: I don't even like leaving my neighborhood unless I'm driving and can get decent parking right in front of wherever I need to be . . . or else I'm Ubering. I can count the number of times I've been out beyond even 8pm on any given night. Hell, my eyes are fluttering by 9pm
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Dude! Amazing! 🤩🔥
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Last time I traveled like this the TSA flipped through every damn page of every book. Sir, if I was smuggling drugs there are far better receptacles than speculative literary fiction. Might I direct you to some other gripping genre books with higher page counts that could be hollowed out?
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Next up? Acknowledgements page in poet voice.
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Love this. Looks like it’s similar in approach to fiction adapted screenplay outline beats but with more intentionally for fiction. I’ve been using screenwriting software (Final Draft) sandbox/outlining features for my own book outlines.
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Sadly for me haha . . . I feel like there’s probably an essay here as well.
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While I’ve turned to some of my own traumas as fictive fuel certainly, I think this time there’s a slow crisis that digs at this question of why many second, third+ gen in America (and certainly Hawai’i) might have a very different relationship with the culture (and language) of older relatives.
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Bought a Canon Laser printer ten years ago and never looked back.
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She looked fantastic for sure. I went straight to her Wikipedia to check her birthdate and was like WTF? That's unfair.
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The vintage-ish peel and stick wallpaper behind me was a marriage test re: cutting, alignment, and getting out air bubbles. The entire room was planned, but we stopped with an accent wall.