If there was an apocalypse—zombies, the sun explodes, whatever—fiction writing as a job would be the thousandth priority behind SoulCycle instructors.
Catalog
Mary H.K. Choi
Loving someone was traumatizing. You never knew what would happen to them out there in the world. Everything precious was also vulnerable.
Sometimes talking to you is like accidentally clicking on a pop-up with autoplay video.
A character that scares you is worth exploring. Yet if you breathe life into a character and it comes to you too easily—say you’re writing from the viewpoint of a black man in America and you’re not one? Think hard about where your inspiration is coming from. Are you writing stereotypes? Tropes? Are…
Every mom is the most annoying human in the universe, but most of them, besides the super-abusive genuinely bad ones, are in your corner.
Whoa. i have been trying to write an essay. like one of those ones i used to write all the time. ALL THE TIME. And my muscle memory is gone. I am rereading some old ones and i could swear someone else did them. IS THIS WHAT HAPPENS.
Dudes: If you consider yourself a feminist and an ally and if your heart goes out to all the women who have been abused in the workplace but don’t know what to do, be a pal and tell three women you work closely with how much you make.