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   Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 21:31:34 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

   I think one of the impactful things I heard about #writing this week was from Liu Cixin, writer of the Three-Body Problem. He said that he decided not to think about how to make his writing marketable or appealing to audiences. Instead, "I will write to entertain myself."
   I think that's the best way to go when it comes to writing.

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     Just call me Ash (ashtardeza@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 23:15:17 JST Just call me Ash

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     @liztai This is a really good point. I keep having to fight myself not to self-censor.

     I keep thinking "people who like my novella might be freaked out by this", but that's just a dead-end road to go down.

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 23:15:17 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • Just call me Ash

     @ashtardeza Yeah sometimes our wildest work is our best and we should heed the call of our hearts. After all, we're creatives not marketing executives ;)
     As for me, I think I may have outgrown the genre I thought I'll always be in, and should write the stories that I want to entertain myself with. Yet, I kept stopping myself because I wanted to be a perfectionist and "complete what I started" ... when I desire to write a very different kind of story now.

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 23:15:45 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • Kevin Rigotti

     @Graffotti It is so "out there" and out of the box, and I've not watched anything like it before. Truly amazing stuff indeed.

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     Kevin Rigotti (graffotti@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 23:15:46 JST Kevin Rigotti

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     @liztai Certainly worked in his case. It's completely different to anything else I've read, and so much more interesting because of that.