Elliot Kang @elliotkang.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Ok I think I've invented a new kind of procrastination 020
Reposted by Elliot KangP H Lee 🪬 @p-h-lee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026an imagination, particularly a honed one, produces powerful, thematically complex images which are often undermined by authorial attempts to justify or explain them. if the image is strong enough, and it often is, it stands best on its own. 0132
Elliot Kang @elliotkang.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It's such a good substack! and they're a great writer 010
Elliot Kang @elliotkang.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Procrastinating by coming up with silly story names 030
Elliot Kang @elliotkang.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This! I struggle with adornments because I have trouble separating "cushioning" praise from true praise. And it gives me mixed signals for what to focus on. Also sometimes a piece that feels like it needs a lot of work gets overwhelming encouragement... which makes me doubt my skill & sanity 🥲 000
Elliot Kang @elliotkang.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Really nice bit about a) when to ignore your critique group and b) filter effects when using experimental techniques in fiction Learning takes a long time, if you listen to surface level feedback and delete your experiments, you will not grow leave.substack.com/p/timelike-c...leave.substack.com"Timelike Curves, Spacelike Curves" in Reactor. 323
Elliot Kang @elliotkang.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Sometimes I think I'm getting pretty good at writing. Then I make the mistake of re-reading Le Guin and I have to go hide in a corner. 120
Reposted by Elliot KangAbhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · 02/09/2026My very talented friend Micah has a story in the latest Strange Horizons and it's well worth your time, especially if you love-hate the internetstrangehorizons.comMR_MR_CENTICOREIn the screen glow of the witching hours you see a silhouette flit in and out of the doorway. Your first meme and your first violation. 0117
Elliot Kang @elliotkang.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This is madness, but I kinda want to try for 400 submissions in a year after reading @aijiang.bsky.social post on rejectomancy. She did like 800!!! back in the day. What a psycho. 141
Elliot Kang @elliotkang.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This cover art is so amazing it's giving me chills 110
Elliot Kang @elliotkang.bsky.social · 31/08/2026This is horrible but I laughed out loud because it's so ridiculous 000
Elliot Kang @elliotkang.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Stories I Started Writing This Week: 9 Stories I Finished Writing This Week: 0static.klipy.comWhat Whatever Shrug MemeALT: What Whatever Shrug Meme 040
Elliot Kang @elliotkang.bsky.social · 28/08/2026it wants to cook what it wants to cookstatic.klipy.comSml FireALT: Sml Fire 010
Elliot Kang @elliotkang.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Me in theory: Ok, for my next story, I'm gonna do BREAD & BUTTER horror, focusing on the basics. Me at computer: Ok, he's a torturer, but he doesn't KNOW he's a torturer, he thinks he's counting receipts at his desk, when he's actually stepping on ppls faces buried in a muddy field... 🫠 140
Elliot Kang @elliotkang.bsky.social · 22/08/2026it's amazing I covered the margins with stars and exclamation marks 010
Elliot Kang @elliotkang.bsky.social · 22/08/2026ITS SO GOOD!! AHHH I'm at a cafe drinking SCALDING HOT COFFEE and all I'm getting is chills over and over because this book... PKD and Gene Wolfe and Brian Evenson had a baby and I am so, so happy... 191
Reposted by Elliot KangNeon Genesis Xu-vangelion 🤖 @hellotherexu.bsky.social · 08/08/2026My first short story is out now in Analog. I am having so many feelings and thoughts so idk it’s about SPACE 6359
Elliot Kang @elliotkang.bsky.social · 08/08/2026So weird coming out of Clarion and coming back to the real world... Airport is full of muscle bros and military backpacks 010
Reposted by Elliot KangRavn J. Silver @ravn-j-silver.bsky.social · 01/08/2026My newest story, "As the Tide Loves the Diver, as the Diver Loves the Tide," is out now in Clarkesworld! It was also one of my application stories to thee Clarion Writing Workshop! @clarkesworldmagazine.com clarkesworldmagazine.comclarkesworldmagazine.comIssue 239Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. 72211
Reposted by Elliot KangClarion Workshop @clarionucsd.bsky.social · 06/08/2026The workshop winds down this week, and we're looking toward the month ahead! Can you support the Clarion Workshop this summer, and help us continue to usher some of the best and brightest writers into the field? We've got some exciting incentives planned! www.clarionfoundation.com/donate-2026 021
Reposted by Elliot KangLark “Tornado” Morgan Lu @larkmorganlu.bsky.social · 12/03/2026For every rejection this year I will roll a random number generator and add a new Pokémon to my rejections punch card 6451
Elliot Kang @elliotkang.bsky.social · 17/06/2026- Wait I just had this awesome idea for an SF story, pretty sure nobody has done it before - Checks just to be sure - Oh, like 15 people have done it, except better and won Hugos for it or w/e - Hmm there are movies and tv series on the same idea 🥲 010
Reposted by Elliot KangGrim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 17/06/2026I am revising my romance novel and I got to a certain scene and I am crying because of the actions of these people who are IMAGINARY who I INVENTED and who are only doing the things they're doing because I MADE THEM DO IT what is this witchery 2172
Elliot Kang @elliotkang.bsky.social · 13/06/2026I'm reading my classmates' stories to prep for Clarion and MAN EVERYONE IS SO GOOD. It's humiliating but also exciting and ... I'm gonna have to work a lot harder to give good feedback instead of just saying, "your viewpoint control is off" or "need to work on context provision" 000
Elliot Kang @elliotkang.bsky.social · 13/06/2026NICE! Totally understand the need to write with all exclamation marks... that's a crazy milestone 😆 110
Elliot Kang @elliotkang.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Yesss! Congratulations! I know how excited you feel 😂 020
Elliot Kang @elliotkang.bsky.social · 21/05/2026I guess "This is me and I'll NEVER change" is just way more sexy than "Weeeeeeellll, we all have multiple values, and as a writer you'll have to compromise more on some of them and less on others to have any chance of being understood." 010
Elliot Kang @elliotkang.bsky.social · 21/05/2026It's funny. Writers are supposed to be "true to themselves" (whatever that means) and have "artistic integrity," but at the same time writing is always an act of translation, which requires empathy and compromise/accomodation 120
Elliot Kang @elliotkang.bsky.social · 17/05/2026I guess what they really mean is that good writers don't get paid enough, or that it's hard for even excellent writers to make a living. Which feels more true and honest to me. You always get paid more for being a hack. 000
Elliot Kang @elliotkang.bsky.social · 17/05/2026I don't really understand it when people say writers "deserve to get paid," as if there's some inalienable financial right to artistic creation. I certainly don't think bad writers deserve to be paid, any more than a bad plumber does, or a bad doctor 100
Elliot Kang @elliotkang.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Congrats everyone! Looking forward to meeting you 😂😆 010
Elliot Kang @elliotkang.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Update: I got in and will be attending the Clarion workshop this year!!! 😁😁😁 050
Reposted by Elliot KangJordan @aafghjn.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Ursula K. Le Guin, from "A Man of the People" (1995), in Five Ways to Forgiveness 011
Reposted by Elliot Kangyoshimi red @yoshimired.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Japanese sci-fi: two robots in space, yearning American sci-fi: man gets the author's beliefs on polygamy confirmed by the aliens of ramalama IV french sci-fi: two horny bounty hunters visit the Galaxy of Breasts British sci-fi: nuclear war. Everyone dead. America's fault 10066081564
Elliot Kang @elliotkang.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Whaat?! They give certificates. Now I want one too ... Also congratulations. When I got mine last year it was a huuuge confidence boost 100
Elliot Kang @elliotkang.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Sometimes when a day isn't going well, when i feel really suck as a writer, I go back and read the stuff I published last year and I'm like ... Uh, no. There's no way that's me. No way I could've pulled that off. Somebody else wrote that. 000
Elliot Kang @elliotkang.bsky.social · 15/05/2026My search history is so sus when I'm writing horror 🙄 110
Elliot Kang @elliotkang.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Congrats! Hope there's contact between CW and the other group in San Diego, which I may or may not be attending this year 😎 000
Elliot Kang @elliotkang.bsky.social · 30/04/2026I'd read it. I've read basically every post I could find on internet + WayBackMachine and the posts are biased towards "This was TRANSFORMATIVE!" I understand ppl don't want to write about the negatives but it would, at very least, help future attendees prep and make an informed decision imo 010
