Aimee Liu
@aimeeliu.bsky.social
#Author, #MFA prof, photopainter, Substacker.
Find me: https://aimeeliu.substack.com/
https://aimeeliu.net/
Some #Books: GAINING, CLOUD MOUNTAIN, GLORIOUS BOY, SOLITAIRE.
Find me: https://aimeeliu.substack.com/
https://aimeeliu.net/
Some #Books: GAINING, CLOUD MOUNTAIN, GLORIOUS BOY, SOLITAIRE.
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41 minutes of watching two shipwrecked men trying to flip a boat and signaling for surrender/help before firing on them again reminds me of the 9.5 minutes Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck, in that it’s an agonizingly long time to be killing helpless people who clearly posed no threat.
December 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
41 minutes of watching two shipwrecked men trying to flip a boat and signaling for surrender/help before firing on them again reminds me of the 9.5 minutes Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck, in that it’s an agonizingly long time to be killing helpless people who clearly posed no threat.
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NYC: “I’m born here! Kings County Hospital! Suck my d*ck!”
Trump’s ICE goons grabbing brown and black people. Bounty hunters. Racial profiling is all they do.
Trump’s ICE goons grabbing brown and black people. Bounty hunters. Racial profiling is all they do.
December 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
NYC: “I’m born here! Kings County Hospital! Suck my d*ck!”
Trump’s ICE goons grabbing brown and black people. Bounty hunters. Racial profiling is all they do.
Trump’s ICE goons grabbing brown and black people. Bounty hunters. Racial profiling is all they do.
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This is great. Very few people want to go to jail, get disbarred or die for this regime. Make them fight you. They will cave.
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
This is great. Very few people want to go to jail, get disbarred or die for this regime. Make them fight you. They will cave.
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
Now at mfalore.com
"Whether literal or symbolic, #stakes represent the reasons why your principal #characters are suffering, struggling, competing: what they have to lose if they don’t succeed, and what they have to gain if they win."
#writing #writingcommunity #plot #storytelling #fiction
"Whether literal or symbolic, #stakes represent the reasons why your principal #characters are suffering, struggling, competing: what they have to lose if they don’t succeed, and what they have to gain if they win."
#writing #writingcommunity #plot #storytelling #fiction
Staking Out Your Story, Part 1: Signaling the Heart of Character Motivation
What constitutes a narrative stake?
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December 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Now at mfalore.com
"Whether literal or symbolic, #stakes represent the reasons why your principal #characters are suffering, struggling, competing: what they have to lose if they don’t succeed, and what they have to gain if they win."
#writing #writingcommunity #plot #storytelling #fiction
"Whether literal or symbolic, #stakes represent the reasons why your principal #characters are suffering, struggling, competing: what they have to lose if they don’t succeed, and what they have to gain if they win."
#writing #writingcommunity #plot #storytelling #fiction
I did not know this writer before, but please, please read her vital story about the #humanity we all need to recover before we turn into a society of monsters: medium.com/age-of-empat...
The Man in The Window Seat
Sometimes we find ourselves face-to-face with horrors we never imagined
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December 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I did not know this writer before, but please, please read her vital story about the #humanity we all need to recover before we turn into a society of monsters: medium.com/age-of-empat...
It’s official! I FINALLY figured out how to change my Substack’s online brand/domain (subdomain? whatever).
It’s now easily findable @
mfalore.substack.com
#writingcommunity #creativewriting #writingtips #writingprompts #writingadvice
It’s now easily findable @
mfalore.substack.com
#writingcommunity #creativewriting #writingtips #writingprompts #writingadvice
MFA Lore | Aimee Liu | Substack
The essence of an MFA in creative writing, minus the tuition: 3 weekly sections, one post at a time. Click to read MFA Lore, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
mfalore.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM
It’s official! I FINALLY figured out how to change my Substack’s online brand/domain (subdomain? whatever).
It’s now easily findable @
mfalore.substack.com
#writingcommunity #creativewriting #writingtips #writingprompts #writingadvice
It’s now easily findable @
mfalore.substack.com
#writingcommunity #creativewriting #writingtips #writingprompts #writingadvice
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This Day, in Infamy and History
As we approach another #PearlHarborDay, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto reminds us that we all share #moralcomplicity for the actions taken in our name. It is our duty as writers to expose the lies and tell the WHOLE truth about our collective #history. #WWII #stoplying
As we approach another #PearlHarborDay, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto reminds us that we all share #moralcomplicity for the actions taken in our name. It is our duty as writers to expose the lies and tell the WHOLE truth about our collective #history. #WWII #stoplying
This Day, in Infamy and History
Confronting the lies that rhyme today within the safe, comfortable sound bites that we choose to hang onto from the past
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December 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This Day, in Infamy and History
As we approach another #PearlHarborDay, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto reminds us that we all share #moralcomplicity for the actions taken in our name. It is our duty as writers to expose the lies and tell the WHOLE truth about our collective #history. #WWII #stoplying
As we approach another #PearlHarborDay, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto reminds us that we all share #moralcomplicity for the actions taken in our name. It is our duty as writers to expose the lies and tell the WHOLE truth about our collective #history. #WWII #stoplying
If you're planning to get an advanced degree BE ALERT to this
massive obstacle in the #BigUglyBill:
Trump administration proposes excluding #nursing and other fields ( #architecture !)from “professional” designation, capping graduate student loans.
Spread the word!
www.latimes.com/california/s...
massive obstacle in the #BigUglyBill:
Trump administration proposes excluding #nursing and other fields ( #architecture !)from “professional” designation, capping graduate student loans.
Spread the word!
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Why outrage is erupting over Trump plan to exclude nursing from ‘professional’ designation
A coalition of nursing and other health-care organizations are pushing back against a Trump administration plan that limits what programs are considered 'professional,' capping access to student loans...
www.latimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
If you're planning to get an advanced degree BE ALERT to this
massive obstacle in the #BigUglyBill:
Trump administration proposes excluding #nursing and other fields ( #architecture !)from “professional” designation, capping graduate student loans.
Spread the word!
www.latimes.com/california/s...
massive obstacle in the #BigUglyBill:
Trump administration proposes excluding #nursing and other fields ( #architecture !)from “professional” designation, capping graduate student loans.
Spread the word!
www.latimes.com/california/s...
If you’ve ever considered experimenting with #secondperson #POV or wondered whether it might work for your novel or memoir, you'll enjoy this post.
#writingcommunity
#writingtips
#writingadvice
#creativewriting
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#writingcommunity
#writingtips
#writingadvice
#creativewriting
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This Story's For "You"
Notes on the Second-Person POV of Alice McDermott's 'Absolution'
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November 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
If you’ve ever considered experimenting with #secondperson #POV or wondered whether it might work for your novel or memoir, you'll enjoy this post.
#writingcommunity
#writingtips
#writingadvice
#creativewriting
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#writingcommunity
#writingtips
#writingadvice
#creativewriting
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The world of this #poem is the world we—despite our countless divisions— inhabit together. Here are the ruins of all our past lives, the impending collapse that will surely scar every one of us. And yet, the lace of memory connects us, too, beyond walls and across continents, transcending loss.
A Special Thanksgiving Gift of Tenderness
With gratitude, grief, and awe, a new poem from Writer in the World Elena Georgiou
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November 27, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The world of this #poem is the world we—despite our countless divisions— inhabit together. Here are the ruins of all our past lives, the impending collapse that will surely scar every one of us. And yet, the lace of memory connects us, too, beyond walls and across continents, transcending loss.
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Democrats are in a position to end the year riding a wave of momentum, with one more chance to over-perform expectations and make the Republican majority in the US House even narrower.
Tennessee special election puts Democratic momentum in 2025 races to the test | CNN Politics
Democrats started this year in the doldrums, having lost both the White House and control of Congress and with their party heading toward record-low approval ratings.
www.cnn.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Democrats are in a position to end the year riding a wave of momentum, with one more chance to over-perform expectations and make the Republican majority in the US House even narrower.
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ICE agents involved in another vehicle collision, this time in Mesa azmirror.com/briefs/ice-a...
ICE agents involved in another vehicle collision, this time in Mesa | Arizona Mirror
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents collided with a car driven by a person they were attempting to apprehend in a Mesa neighborhood.
azmirror.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
ICE agents involved in another vehicle collision, this time in Mesa azmirror.com/briefs/ice-a...
“That’s the best piece of writing advice I ever had... It is the only absolutely 24-carat-gold-plated piece of advice I have to give you.” — #ZadieSmith
#writingadvice #writingcommunity
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#writingadvice #writingcommunity
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Step Away From the Vehicle, and Other Expert Tips to Improve Your Work
Giving thanks for the writerly wisdom of Zadie Smith (and more!)
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November 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
“That’s the best piece of writing advice I ever had... It is the only absolutely 24-carat-gold-plated piece of advice I have to give you.” — #ZadieSmith
#writingadvice #writingcommunity
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#writingadvice #writingcommunity
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Consider a #character or someone you know who gets sharp and pointed when surrounded by perceived menace. Now peel off a layer. Underneath the spikes, is anger the predominant register, or is it fear? Does this reaction signify strength, or weakness; defiance, or submission; pride, or insecurity?
Writing Prompt: Pointed
Visual inspiration + mental exercise to start your writing week
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November 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Consider a #character or someone you know who gets sharp and pointed when surrounded by perceived menace. Now peel off a layer. Underneath the spikes, is anger the predominant register, or is it fear? Does this reaction signify strength, or weakness; defiance, or submission; pride, or insecurity?
Writing Prompt: Pointed
Some of us get prickly when we’re surrounded. We grow defensive spikes and make pointed remarks. Our voices rise sharply, as if attacking, when honestly we’re just terrified.
Same is true of your #characters .
Here, then, is your #writingprompt:
Some of us get prickly when we’re surrounded. We grow defensive spikes and make pointed remarks. Our voices rise sharply, as if attacking, when honestly we’re just terrified.
Same is true of your #characters .
Here, then, is your #writingprompt:
Writing Prompt: Pointed
Visual inspiration + mental exercise to start your writing week
open.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Writing Prompt: Pointed
Some of us get prickly when we’re surrounded. We grow defensive spikes and make pointed remarks. Our voices rise sharply, as if attacking, when honestly we’re just terrified.
Same is true of your #characters .
Here, then, is your #writingprompt:
Some of us get prickly when we’re surrounded. We grow defensive spikes and make pointed remarks. Our voices rise sharply, as if attacking, when honestly we’re just terrified.
Same is true of your #characters .
Here, then, is your #writingprompt:
The good news is that the #Big5 publish as many as 1 million #books each year. Not all of them get the royal treatment, but they all do have access to the Big 5 #marketing advantage.
It’s absolutely worth your effort to keep revising your book until it’s irresistible to #editors at major houses.
It’s absolutely worth your effort to keep revising your book until it’s irresistible to #editors at major houses.
Notes From a Big 5 Book Rollout Meeting
Or, why it IS still worth it to chase a major publishing deal
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November 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The good news is that the #Big5 publish as many as 1 million #books each year. Not all of them get the royal treatment, but they all do have access to the Big 5 #marketing advantage.
It’s absolutely worth your effort to keep revising your book until it’s irresistible to #editors at major houses.
It’s absolutely worth your effort to keep revising your book until it’s irresistible to #editors at major houses.
#writingcommunity Craft books for #fictionwriters offer scads of systems for mapping and psychoanalyzing #characters, but unpacking the inner life of people for #memoir can be more difficult because what we “know” can so easily distort what we don’t know about them. These tips will help:
Boost Your Character’s Inner Life
A deep-dive exercise for fiction and nonfiction writers
authoraimeeliu.medium.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
#writingcommunity Craft books for #fictionwriters offer scads of systems for mapping and psychoanalyzing #characters, but unpacking the inner life of people for #memoir can be more difficult because what we “know” can so easily distort what we don’t know about them. These tips will help:
Not many #authors will get this much #bestseller push from their publisher, yet it’s essential for all to understand what the essential #bookmarketing and #publicity cogs are and how they work together to propel a book toward success in the marketplace.
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Notes From a Big 5 Book Rollout Meeting
Or, why it IS still worth it to chase a major publishing deal
substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Not many #authors will get this much #bestseller push from their publisher, yet it’s essential for all to understand what the essential #bookmarketing and #publicity cogs are and how they work together to propel a book toward success in the marketplace.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Spotify seems to be deflecting here and trying to say "everybody's doing it". The point of a targeted boycott at one company is to send the message to anyone who is doing this: "If you piss us off, we can take you down like we did Disney or Spotify." Corporations need to fear us more than Tr*mp.
November 16, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Spotify seems to be deflecting here and trying to say "everybody's doing it". The point of a targeted boycott at one company is to send the message to anyone who is doing this: "If you piss us off, we can take you down like we did Disney or Spotify." Corporations need to fear us more than Tr*mp.
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Spotify becomes resistance target as they continue to stream ICE ads. Americans begin to boycott.
November 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Spotify becomes resistance target as they continue to stream ICE ads. Americans begin to boycott.
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@indivisible.org has asked us to boycott Spotify as long as they are running ICE recruitment ads. I think that is a good enough reason to do it, but I think this collective action does so much more than we realize. These are muscles and mindsets we are building now for bigger actions to come.
The Spotify boycott is about so much more than you realize
YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture
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November 16, 2025 at 2:31 AM
@indivisible.org has asked us to boycott Spotify as long as they are running ICE recruitment ads. I think that is a good enough reason to do it, but I think this collective action does so much more than we realize. These are muscles and mindsets we are building now for bigger actions to come.