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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First)

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Eclectic Creative. The first Jewish Korean Adoptee writer and first Korean Adoptee pro-pubbed in SFF. Queer. BA in Anthro concentrated in systems (such as racism, sexism, etc). Minor in Comparative Lit. I block genA.I. users. http://www.kimyoonmiauthor.com

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · Nov 24

I'm more complex than my profile suggests, and I would think that you are too.

Some people might be curious.

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 19h

Y.ou also need the skill of reading contracts for when you get agents, editors, illustrators, etc. And writers HATE doing it, but if you don't, someone down the line is going to think their likeness owned for life is a-OK. We have to hold the line on fair pay, etc. Make sure to read the guild pages.

김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 19h

It's the part that writers are least prepared for and is a pain the donkey to learn since when you decided to be a writer you didn't go, Oh boy, I get to learn how to read TOS and short story writer's contracts. Walking away is hard. Learning to pay in thirds is hard.

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 19h

Clauses you need: When can you resell the story? AKA Reversion clause, which country/region does the contract apply to?, for what work are you getting paid?, etc. Do you get to review edits?

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 19h

Clauses to look out for: Perpetual license ["in perpetuity"], own your life story in all forms, which forms they own it with, how long the license is for, which regions they have a license for which media do they own it in. Make sure they are paying for it. Do they "own your likeness"?

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 19h

Contracts. A good writer should know what a fair contract smells like, but often you have to refuse a bad contract and then you lose the opportunity. If you don't, though, you're setting up other writers to fail. If you have an agent they aren't going to help you. #WritingCommunity

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 1d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 10 📚

As a #neurospicy author, I find sticking to one project is really challenging, especially if I'm in a hard slog phase that doesn't give me any dopamine.

#writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #authorchat #findtheglimmers #adhd #dyslexia

October #writinglifemonthly Day 10 What's the hardest part about writing for you?
Build Community - Share. Like.Comment in Group. @traceyleewrites

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 20h

So often we're caught up in the modern age in the idea of piling on and witch hunting, and superiority, that we don't pause to ask if we are doing the right thing. And this book will 100% make you think hard about where you stand as the character seeks revenge and unintended consequences.

김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 20h

For the contemporary reader, Count of Monte Cristo will appeal for a flawed justice system, inability to trust the police, but also the morals of revenge. While you do feel schadenfreude for the character, there is a good distance that makes you wonder at your own morals.

김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 20h

There is the sudden return and then the slow and nefarious build up. I have heard the original French has a really beautiful language. I favor it over the other banned book Wuthering Heights (Gothic, uppercase romantic, not love) since Count of Monte Cristo often reads like a thriller in places.

김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 20h

#BannedBooksWeek The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas was once banned by the Catholic Church, and for violence, revenge, and a wrongful justice system. People don't usually realize Dumas was part Black. It is my favorite revenge plot. #WritingCommunity vocabdictionary.com/explained/wh...

Why Was The Count of Monte Cristo Banned? - Vocab Dictionary

Question: Why was The Count of Monte Cristo banned?

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 1d

BTW, I told a chef friend of mine about the Jamie Oliver incident and as soon as I said his name, she rolled her eyes before I even said the story. He has a reputation that proceeds him.

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 1d

What animal has the best morals? A Conch because it has a conch sense.

김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 1d

What books can do that movies can't. Make punny homonym jokes. Maximize what books can do that other mediums can't. Don't write them like it's a movie. Write a book like it's meant to be a book.
#WritingCommunity

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 1d

It gives a roadmap of what the motivations for our current state of affairs is... and maybe that's why it's banned. So on one side, the plot devastates you thoroughly as you realize it's too close to reality, and on the other hand the language itself make you want to cry for joy.

김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 1d

The book is a dystopia where there is a rampant disease, a near dictator president based only on charisma, tech oligarchy and planet destruction through pollution is imminent. I mean... what part of that isn't true? Some of the book feels like prophecy, especially when she sets it in 2024.

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 1d

#BannedBookWeek since I have a fixation on talking about it. Tickles my soul with the gorgeous language, but also horrifies at the devastating destruction that feels too real in 2025. #ParableoftheSower by #OctaviaButler. Too close to reality? woottoncommonsense.com/23282/review... #WritingCommunity

Read what they don’t want you to read: Three books to explore in wake of imminent ban

Last year, PEN America reported that over 10,000 books were banned in United States public schools. These bans don’t mean that a book will stop being produced or available to purchase, but depending o...

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 1d

There is still "take lead" meaning "to take charge," which is where the derivation of "lead" of a story came from. But some editor thought it was "too confusing" with "the metal" and changed the spelling, ignoring the other meanings and thousands of other homonyms. Twisted etymology.

김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 1d

Granted, it was there in the 1970's, but it didn't become overly official until 2008. This means there are people alive today who still remember it as "bury the lead" and they would be "correct". The justification for the change is odd though.

김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 1d

When you have a lead on a story, or buried the lead, it was spelled like this... until 2008 where people changed their mind and changed it to lede. WTF. Then it became bury the lede. Because they didn't want to confuse it with the metal. #WritingCommunity

김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 2d

BTW, the most striking thing people have said after reading the list of reasons books have gotten banned is that if you follow all of the list, there is absolutely nothing you can publish to satisfy everyone. The best way, then, is to work through it and discuss it.

김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 2d

Which is why I'm often surprised when people object to sex, drugs, etc under YA when the books that defined the genre have, *gasp* sex, drugs, etc in YA. (also things like running away from home and so on).

김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 2d

It covers things like the loss of his sister, mental illness, but also loss in the face of impending adulthood. Published in 1951) With the Outsiders (1967), also often banned and challenged, they are marked as the first official YA novels under other books were eventually retconned under.

김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 2d

#BannedBookWeek Catcher in the Rye is often challenged/Banned for sexual themes (the prostitutes), the first challenge happening in 1960 resulting with a teacher being fired over it. bannedbooks.library.cmu.edu/j-d-salinger... #WritingCommunity I loved the book for it's hardcore themes of loss.

J.D. Salinger, “The Catcher in the Rye” – The Banned Books Project

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 3d

Your occasional reminder that Gustav Freytag was a pro-fascist pro-genocider. This is also why most of the 20th century writers make sideways references to him, but never mention him. BTW, if you need a rebuttal, which is clearly a rebuttal, Polti does a pretty good job of it. lol #WritingCommunity

김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 3d

Don't forget #BannedBookWeek #WritingCommunity #LGBTQIA

What's your favorite Banned Book?

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Banned Books Week | October 5-11, 2025

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 4d

I don't get how you manage to get two different soy sauces and neither of them are Korean. It confounds me.

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