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Aimee Liu
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#Author, #MFA prof, photopainter, Substacker. Find me: https://aimeeliu.substack.com/ https://aimeeliu.net/ Some #Books: GAINING, CLOUD MOUNTAIN, GLORIOUS BOY, SOLITAIRE.
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#writingcommunity #writingprompt!
Muse on this house’s darkness, its complexity, its suggestion of shelter— or is that entrapment? And what’s with that tree?

Now develop a scene or story that answers the following questions:
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Writing Prompt: House of Woe
Visual inspiration + mental exercise to start your writing week
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If you want to #MAKEAMERICAmoralagain
read this article by David Brooks. “Without populists, progressives can turn into a bunch of affluent, out-of-touch urbanites who have little in common with regular Americans. Without progressives, populists can turn into anti-intellectual, paranoid bigots.”
America Needs a Mass Movement—Now
Without one, America may sink into autocracy for decades.
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Groceries: UP

Electric bills: UP

Restaurant prices: UP

Used car prices: UP

NOW? Trump wants to raise healthcare costs by OVER 75%.

He’s going to shut down the government so he can hand out tax cuts to his billionaire buddies.

He does not care about you.
Gavin Newsom (@gavinnewsom)
Groceries: UP Electric bills: UP Restaurant prices: UP Used car prices: UP NOW? Trump wants to raise healthcare costs by OVER 75%. He’s going to shut down the government so he can hand out tax cu...
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These are menacing times. Some of our fears are imagined. Many are totally warranted. How do we mortals navigate between these two poles? I believe fairy tales were designed for this purpose.

This #writingprompt will help you gain new perspectives on #narrative #fear.
Writing Prompt: Menace
Visual inspiration + mental exercise to start your writing week
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Change your profile pic to NO KINGS and make your plan now to PROTEST Trump on Oct 18.
Years of conversation with other #writers have convinced me that fear of family (FOF) is one of the most common causes of self-censorship.
This post will help you manage FOF.
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Don't Let Fear of Family (FOF) Block Your Writing Path
To save your sanity, compose as if everyone you know were dead
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#writingcommunity Weirdness is a warning to stop, pay attention, take notice of forces that lurk beneath the surface, causing trouble or raising questions that, whether good or bad, demand a reckoning. Interrogating the weird is one of creative writing’s most necessary and useful practices.
Writers! Interrogate the Weird
Weirdness is a signal from your subconscious to notice the forces lurking beneath the surface of your story
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"We were talking in annotations, I realized, and then I said it: “We’re talking in annotations.” And then everybody said, we’re talking in annotations, and then everybody said: Well, that’s what writers do, when they talk to other writers: They talk in #annotations."
#MFA
When Writers Talk, They Talk in Annotations
Reading like a writer applies to all things creative
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TRUMP is BUTCHERING the SOUL of the NATION. Millions must rise in peace NOW to stop him.
#nokngs #oct18
Here’s a very brief video writing prompt to launch your week. It’s called “Waiting,” and that’s your prompt!
Remember that waiting is not a passive activity. There’s a lot going on as one waits.
Details below.
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Writing Prompt: Waiting
Video metaphor + exercise to start your writing week
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#Disabled people were killed under the #Nazi #T4program. Here’s where that happened.

As you read this, ask yourself who did this killing and why. Then ask yourself what protects America TODAY from this happening here.

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Disability in Nazi Germany Revisited
What MFA professor Kenny Fries does on leave
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What you BELIEVE can now get you ARRESTED in TRUMP’s POLICE STATE. #nokings

PROTEST ON OCT 18‼️
Have you seen #ONEBATTLEAFTERANOTHER yet?

Please tell us what you think!!!
#writingcommunity
Beginning a new project, I find myself scouring my favorite sources for advice and inspiration. Some of which, I thought, might prove useful to you. Hence this post, in which I’ll share the launch strategies that I’m finding most helpful as I begin again.
How to Begin Again
Strategies for planting a new writing project after a dry spell
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Yes they are banning words now. All the words SANE people use every day to describe what they need and are entitled to: #bannedwords
THIS IS NOT JUSTICE -
TRUMP IS CRIMINAL
S.E.C. Drops Efforts to Recoup Funds From Trump Clemency Recipients Devon Archer, Trevor Milton and Carlos Watson were convicted in fraud schemes totaling hundreds of millions of dollars. Now, they will not be required to pay back victims.
The S.E.C. Drops Efforts to Recoup Funds From Trump Clemency Recipients
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