Loved this short story. Excellent sicko body horror. Chinese guy starts growing sharks fins out of his body and those parts start.... uuhhh being harvested.
@cordillera thank you! something i enjoy about body horror in prose is the ambiguity, i’m glad that worked for you! i drew on a lot of my experiences living in huizhou so its always nice to see people respond well to it :)
There's a debate whether you can learn how to write fiction through #fanfic sites like #AO3
One side says you can't learn shit from it because it emphasizes visual cues too much as if you were watching a TV show, and another side says it should be valued because that's the most accessible way to get into a writing community.
Ima be all "both sides" on this one. After more than a decade writing fanfic I can say it helped me on some aspects but not all. Sometimes it can hurt.
@cordillera As a kid and then probably up to my mid-20s, I preferred visual writing (like reading a movie) than anything else. When I started reading and then writing fanfiction, I learned how important internal thoughts and monologues were - how evocative they could be (read: angst! 😆) (This is fanfiction from visual mediums like movies and TV that I was learning from).
That more than anything made a big impact on my reading preferences and writing ability #ThanksFanfiction 🥂
In the middle of rewriting a #horror#ShortStory I wrote a decade ago. Looks like the word count will be reduced by a third and easier to send to submissions.
Honestly I can't read through the original one anymore, it feels way too long now. I padded my old stories with dialogue because that was my comfort zone. Now it has nearly no dialogue and it's distilled to its purest form of weird insanity.
I'm locally infamous for writing a Bonifacio x Aguinaldo hatefuck 💀 Gonna try my hand at the paying genre market this year and be a bit more legit.
AO3 made me very comfortable with dialogue and smut but my atmospheric prose is zilch, which is why I'm catching up on horror. I want to write like Nathan Ballingrud 😢
Green Mars by #KimStanleyRobinson (1993) - 2nd book of a trilogy on how #Mars colonization would actually go down. Think underground scientist communes, multinational mining corpos, abused space migrant labour. It's dense but KSR is one of the best living scifi authors.
Everfair by Nisi Shawl (2016) - #steampunk#AltHistory of armed resistance against King Leopold II in the late 1800s. Love the premise, but not loving the detached prose. 1/🧵
@cordillera if you like The House of Aunts, the entire Spirits Abroad is highly recommended! Zen is a foaf and I met her before I read her works, kinda mad at myself for that. 😅
For the folks not aware of #SB19, they're the Philippines' biggest boy band. I'd say they have a level of versatility that's close to BTS since they have a great rap line AND great vocals. Their live vocal performances on the Wish Bus are insanely good.
They started the #ppop movement, which is Filipino pop that is partly informed by #kpop with the emphasis on high budget M/Vs, choreography, photocards, etc.