#Writers and Editors of Color

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There are two peak points of this graph. The first corresponds with me sharing this article with Writers and Editors of Color, a brilliant community of … writers and editors of colour.

https://medium.com/illumination/are-curation-and-distribution-still-the-secret-to-success-59e06b89f741 / #WEOC

#weoc #writers and editors of color #graph #side hustle #writing

[olivettheory]

Why I Read

Medium Facebook Instagram Goodreads Tumblr Check Your Ignorance At The Door The hallowing of the mind occurs when we settle. Principally on matters of awareness and self-awareness. Meaning, that we tend to become less of ourselves when we believe we have nothing more to learn, and with that, less yet to add to the world because of it. Ignorance isn’t the only thing at play here because…

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#Bible #Blog #Blogger #Blogging #Book Review #Books #Faith #Hope #Journal #Olivet Theory #Personal Growth #Philosphy #Read #Reading #Religion #Thoughts #Time #WEOC #Writers and Editors of Color #Writing

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The second peak corresponds with my interview with WEOC on Twitter Spaces for their Writers for Change series. This is a space where we "leave some gems, take some gems" as Allison puts it, helping each other learn about writing processes that help us grow as writers. Attendees from this segment heard about my work and actively found this piece to read it.

#WritersForChange #WEOC

#writers for change #weoc #writers and editors of color #medium #medium writing #lucy dot txt

[outragedtortilla]

Thank you to WEOC (Writers and Editors of Colour) for showing me what community support truly looks like.

:)

#WEOC #writers and editors of color #writers and editors of colour #medium group #medium community #lucy dot txt

[grouchydairy]

Plus, when I finally joined WEOC (Writers and Editors of Colour), I was so excited to find that there’s a channel in which everyone shares their articles. The algorithm almost consistently buries pieces from my favourite writers, even when I bookmark and manually go back to their pieces over and over again, so having a channel where I can just go down everyone’s responses and make sure I’m caught up has been so much easier for me.

#WEOC

#writers and editors of color #weoc #writing #writing group #slack

[ramyeongif]

There are two peak points of this graph. The first corresponds with me sharing this article with Writers and Editors of Color, a brilliant community of … writers and editors of colour.

#WEOC

#weoc #writers and editors of color #graph #side hustle #writing

[bastard-of-a-bog-being]

Those funny bursts of inspiration and motivation that are just like “yes! It’s brilliant! The solution was there all along! JUST WRITE! If I sit down and Just Write and finish my stories I can send them to agents and try and get them published!

And then I look at my laptop like “now what the fuck are words and how do I use them”

#ryan’s ramblings #no seriously why are my biggest bursts of inspiration paired with utter bouts of writer’s block #sometimes it makes me frustrated knowing that making a legit living off my writing will be near impossible #but books that are NYT bestsellers and widely adored are legitimately terrible #not in a mean way just like. I’m sorry Lucy Foley but the Guest List was full of so many embarrassing errors #and then you admit you were an editor for a big publisher??? #a silk dress that can’t be touched by ungloved hands because it’s so delicate? #that the bride will simply cut above the knees and dye it for casual use???? #A TIERED RED VELVET SPONGE WEDDING CAKE #TRAVELING ON A BOAT?!? #man I know you only made it red velvet to draw a comparison to the color of blood didn’t you #but then to act like red velvet is the fanciest cake flavor is probably funnier than anything else #not to mention the Colleen Hoover obsession rn. #I’m more worried about the fact that my novel genres go from Literary to Sci Fi to Paranormal to Fantasy to whatever. even a romance #not gonna manage to hold an audience through every book at that point #but maybe I’ll have a little bit of something for everyone at the table

[jerxiong]

first post as a bookblr & introduction

hi!

i'm a hmong american writer & editor. i'm joining tumblr as we enter 2023 as a way to keep myself accountable on reading while also supporting books by writers of color. my main focus in creative nonfiction books by asian writers, but i'll occasionally venture to other works in other genres too.

anyway, if you're curious, i'm still experimenting with what i'll post & what will be fun to do, but i think it'll generally be these things:

creative nonfiction / essays / memoirs / graphic memoirs / unconventional genre-bending works

writers of color, specifically asian writers and indigenous writers

BIPOC writers in diaspora

book reviews / maps / boards

book love / recs

book reading liveblogs

reflections / insights on editing

reflections / advice on the mfa creative writing experience

hmong stuff

thanks for reading! looking forward to the community.

#writers on tumblr #bookblr #creative writing #writing community #nonfiction #creative nonfiction #memoir #essays #literature #asian writers #writers of color #hmong #books #mfa creative writing #editorial #editing #editor #intro post #blog intro #jer speaks #okay idk what to tag now so im going to stop #also i dont have a schedule yet but i plan to make one!! #and i was going to introduce this yesterday but got caught up with some busy things... #which i'll post about in a few days #:)

[tbookblurbs]

The Best of H.P. Lovecraft

2.5/5 - Horror but not bloodcurdling, not a woman in sight, Lovecraft has a crazy intense fear of old age

So, I'm not sure if these short stories are actually all that predictable or if I have just read/seen enough horror generally to know what to look for. Most of the endings for these stories you can parse out pretty quick, but what's more enjoyable is the journey to get there. Lovecraft loves to use the first person and he really captures the descent into madness of a lot of his characters.

I wasn't overly enamored by the prose of most of the stories. It's overburdened and where his stories could be short, he rambles. It's easy to pick up on his two or three favorite adjectives after around three stories. There's also hints here and there of the white supremacist ideas that Lovecraft held (including, yes, the famous cat from "the Rats in the Walls") and they mostly show up in the idea that indigenous cultures are primitive, that cities are being "overrun" by immigrants, and that there are somehow creatures that were human but are now Othered. It's rampant across the books.

Personally, I didn't find the mythology that he sets up to be all that compelling, but again, I can't tell if the reason that it all seems so overdone is because everyone used him as a jumping off point, or if he's just capturing a popular trope well.

Easily the best stories for me were "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" which manages to subvert some of the trends that you see throughout Lovecraft's writing and "The Color Out of Space" which is pure science fiction. So much of science fiction and "weird fiction" pulls from Lovecraft, but almost everyone improves on what he lays out. He's just not an overly impressive writer, in my opinion. Where he's good, he's great, but he's not often good.

A note on the women: I'm sure I saw it on here somewhere, but there's a post that's along the lines of "you are much more likely to run into an eldritch horror in a Lovecraft story than you are a woman" and that is so true.

#I can recognize that Lovecraft founded a new sect for genre fiction #and also recognize that the guy Sucks #I'm also just impressed by his writing. He's WAY too verbose #it feels like he never had an editor look at anything he wrote (which to be fair I don't think he had an editor) #I also saw a couple reviews when I had just finished it that said that this book gets you used to and able to forgive Lovecraft's prose #and I am personally of the opinion that if I have to forgive your prose you are not a very good writer #the best of hp lovecraft #hp lovecraft #the shadow over innsmouth #the color out of space #book review #horror #science fiction #weird fiction

[peridot-tears]

Hey guys. I'm looking for a sensitivity reader, preferably of Haudenosaunee or Algonquin background, for a fantasy/sci-fi short story I'm writing for an anthology. This is paid. DM me and I can talk more about the details.

#editors of color #editors of tumblr #sensitivity reader #haudenosaunee #algonquin #indigenous writers #indigenous editors

[librarycards]

hi, do you happen to have any writings about gender written by transfem butches and/or transfem poc that you'd recommend?

Yes! first, I recommend checking out this post, where I recommend / crowdsource some readings on butch trans womanhood / TMA subjectivity. I also highly recommend Emi Koyama's blog/body of work, b. binaohan's numerous writings and books, and the Trans Woman Writer's Collective (founded by Jamie Berrout, a powerhouse author/editor in her own right). My friend Valerie (@grimesapologist) has an excellent pamphlet out with them!

Some transfem/trans woman/TMA (acknowledging that there is as much variation in gender among TMA people as TME people, though the former group are systemically foreclosed from gender creativity in ways TME people are, within queer and trans circles, marginally permitted) writers of color I recommend include

micha cárdenas

Meredith Talusan

Vivek Shraya

jia qing wilson-yang

Ryka Aoki

Jules Gill-Peterson

Kai Cheng Thom

Trish Salah

[I've linked to my personal favorite/most influential work by most of the listed authors]

There are some great, relevant readings in the anthology Trap Door: Trans Cultural Projection and the Politics of Visibility. Lastly, this paper, A Tranifesto For the Dolls in Transgender Studies Quarterly is something of a who's who in this cohort of junior scholars in trans/feminist of color theory. Very exciting piece based off a very exciting conference roundtable that I actually attended back in 2022!

hope this helps :)

#book rec #ask #anonymous #readings #trans #transfeminism

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The second peak corresponds with my interview with WEOC on Twitter Spaces for their Writers for Change series. This is a space where we "leave some gems, take some gems" as Allison puts it, helping each other learn about writing processes that help us grow as writers. Attendees from this segment heard about my work and actively found this piece to read it.

#WritersForChange #WEOC

#writers for change #weoc #writers and editors of color #medium #medium writing #lucy dot txt

[olivettheory]

The Dilemma of Acceptance

Medium Facebook Instagram Goodreads Tumblr A Timely Challenge The dilemma of acceptance is weighed by your understanding of a pivotal moment in life. Acceptance hangs on whether or not you understand why you are where you are with the predicament you find yourself in. What I mean is that understanding, the awareness of preceding factors, is inherently required in life for you to accept your…

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[eggwhiteswithspinach]

There are two peak points of this graph. The first corresponds with me sharing this article with Writers and Editors of Color, a brilliant community of … writers and editors of colour.

#WEOC

#weoc #writers and editors of color #graph #side hustle #writing

[outragedtortilla]

Plus, when I finally joined WEOC (Writers and Editors of Colour), I was so excited to find that there’s a channel in which everyone shares their articles. The algorithm almost consistently buries pieces from my favourite writers, even when I bookmark and manually go back to their pieces over and over again, so having a channel where I can just go down everyone’s responses and make sure I’m caught up has been so much easier for me.

#WEOC

#writers and editors of color #weoc #writing #writing group #slack

[grouchydairy]

Plus, when I finally joined WEOC (Writers and Editors of Colour), I was so excited to find that there’s a channel in which everyone shares their articles. The algorithm almost consistently buries pieces from my favourite writers, even when I bookmark and manually go back to their pieces over and over again, so having a channel where I can just go down everyone’s responses and make sure I’m caught up has been so much easier for me.

#WEOC

#writers and editors of color #weoc #writing #writing group #slack