as times change, so too does technique...
ex: how do you content warn for spoilers, without the content warnings themselves being spoilers?
as a reader, I've found inserting smaller-scale examples earlier in the narrative can instill a "false sense of security" that still elicits The Big Feelings during The Big Reveal
You have an affliction. A malady. Everything in the world, all its equipment and armaments, its slings and arrows, its sticks and stones, its words that always hurt you, that break your heart and your bones. Osteogenesis imperfecta. All your inner structures turn brittle, little, and weak.
Sunday 3 and Monday 4 december, the '2023 KM100NZ Haiku Competition Results & Haiku Reading' will be streamed via Zoom several times. No 27 is by yours truly. For all information and free tickets:👇🏽
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You put yourself together. Bit by bit. Part Sometimes you do it with clarity and precision. As if by a manual. As if provided with a step-by-step guide. At other times, in total darkness. In the midnight hour. Grappling with esoteric secrets. With hieroglyphics. An impenetrable mystery. Like Ikea instructions for building anything...
In Issue 5 of The Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal you can read both a haiku and a haiga of mine. A big thumbs up again for editor Steliana Voicu, who also translated the poems into Romanian.The theme is 'Secret Santa'.
In Issue 5 of The Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal you can read both a haiku and a haiga of mine. A big thumbs up again for editor Steliana Voicu, who also translated the poems into Romanian.The theme is 'Secret Santa.
In Issue 5 of The Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal you can read both a haiku and a haiga of mine. A big thumbs up again for editor Steliana Voicu, who also translated the poems into Romanian.
Earlier this year I wrote a non-fiction article about my thought processes in worldbuilding. I have been obsessed with a future where central governments are no more, and everything is decentralised like the fediverse. The article is part of an anthology on Afro centered futurisms, and here is a Publishers Weekly announcement of the book. Description in the alt text.
Better starts with dissatisfaction. A holy discontent. A decided refusal to never relinquish the possibility of what could be to what has been. To never accept the current state of things. It starts with a willing rejection. It starts with a conscientious objection.