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Fantasy author
SFWA & HWA
📚I’m either writing or punching my friends 🥊
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Wait, this is just Fight Club
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Be a rebel punk. Believe in a better future.
The status quo HATES that
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“Bob trembled, and got a little nearer to the ruler. He had a momentary idea of knocking Scrooge down with it, holding him, and calling to the people in the court for help and a strait-waistcoat.”
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This is SUCH a good character building exercise!
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Last night I had a new student taking a trial class, and afterwards she complimented me on “how you made those guys talk about their feelings.”
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8. I have exactly one tattoo. It’s of the Southern Cross constellation, which was the name of my dad’s beloved fishing boat, named for the Crosby, Stills, & Nash song (by way of Jimmy Buffett). Growing up near the equator, I saw those stars every single night.
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7. There’s no photographic evidence of this, but Kevin Hart once told me to my face that I wasn’t white.
(DNA testing later disproved this theory)
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6. I reread the entirety of the Middle-Earth novels every year, doing one chapter a day starting in July with the Silmarillion then continuing into The Children of Hurin, The Hobbit, and LotR (beginning A Long-Expected Party on Sep. 22). I’ve done this for twelve years now.
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5. In high school I signed my name like this:
Marshall
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4. Related to 3, I’ve had stitches in my face twice. Image flagged accordingly if you’d rather not see it.
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3. I’m a professional Muay Thai & kickboxing instructor.
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2. I once sold $1,000 of teapots to Jackie Chan.
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1. I was born and (mostly) raised on Kwajalein, a 2-mile island in the Marshall Islands (thus my name).
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CLAIM TO FAME, Carter
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Outlining is a fantastic tool. I think tomorrow I’m going to try starting from the ending and reverse outlining my way back from there.
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Journaling has definitely been helping me to at least get words onto page, as well as providing a tool for self-reflection.
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Ohh this is a great idea!
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All of those things are definitely part of the process!
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This is a really great exercise!! I’ve been thinking about tackling some short story prompts to see if that breaks me out of my rut, but it may be even more useful to do something even smaller scale to get the creativity flowing again.
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Good advice!! Sprints have been really helpful for me in the past. Hopefully doing a few will help me regain my focus and drive.
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Yeah, I’ve spent a lot of time walking my neighborhood trying to give my brain a reset, but it does tend to bump up against my inner voice telling me I need to be productive *right now* 😅 But at least there are a lot of neighborhood cats to pet 😸
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Oh wow, this is so helpful Amal, thank you!! I’ll definitely be trying this one. Super excited for The River Has Roots btw!!
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Oooohh thank you Angela!! This is a really good one and I admire Amal’s writing a ton.