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Megan
is 19% done
It’s not fraud, what we’re doing. We’re just suggesting the right credentials, so that readers take me and my story seriously, so that nobody refuses to pick up my work because of some outdated preconceptions about who can write what. And if anyone makes assumptions, or connects the dots the wrong way, doesn’t that say far more about them than me?
— Jun 21, 2023 05:24AM
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Megan
is 83% done
What more can we want as writers than such immortality? Don’t ghosts just want to be remembered?
— Jun 25, 2023 04:29AM
Megan
is 82% done
They could cast us in a movie together. Florence Pugh will play me. That girl from Crazy Rich Asians will play Athena.
That was subtle but clever. She knows Florence Pugh’s name but Constance Wu is just “that girl”?
— Jun 25, 2023 04:27AM
That was subtle but clever. She knows Florence Pugh’s name but Constance Wu is just “that girl”?
Megan
is 70% done
Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hurts too much.
— Jun 25, 2023 03:47AM
Megan
is 61% done
But isn’t that what ghosts do? Howl, moan, make themselves into spectacles? That’s the whole point of a ghost, is it not? Anything to remind you that they’re still there. Anything to keep you from forgetting.
— Jun 25, 2023 03:17AM
Megan
is 24% done
And I wonder if that’s the final, obscure part of how publishing works: if the books that become big do so because at some point everyone decided, for no good reason at all, that this would be the title of the moment.
— Jun 22, 2023 03:31AM
Megan
is 12% done
And fuck it, I’ll just say it: taking Athena’s manuscript felt like reparations, payback for the things that Athena took from me.
June doing mental gymnastics trying to justify stealing Athena’s manuscript 🙃
— Jun 20, 2023 02:51AM
June doing mental gymnastics trying to justify stealing Athena’s manuscript 🙃
Megan
is 11% done
It’s not like I took a painting and passed it off as my own. I inherited a sketch, with colors added only in uneven patches, and finished it according to the style of the original.
— Jun 20, 2023 02:46AM
Megan
is 2% done
Athena—a beautiful, Yale-educated, international, ambiguously queer woman of color—has been chosen by the Powers That Be. Meanwhile, I’m just brown-eyed, brown-haired June Hayward, from Philly—and no matter how hard I work, or how well I write, I’ll never be Athena Liu.
— Jun 10, 2023 05:33AM
