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Akotowaa @akotowaa.bsky.social · 2d

I enjoy my WIP chapter titles so much.

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Akotowaa @akotowaa.bsky.social · 3d

I cried.
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Seeing My Work Through Other Artists’ Eyes 🕸️ Issue 17

How Moses Leo brought the woman-centered magic of my Year of Return novella to the Berlin stage

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Victoria Song @vicmsong.bsky.social · 6d

This week's Optimizer is about the very special wearable hell I've been living in recently... and how it's all coming for you too if Big Tech gets its way.

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We’re all about to be in wearable hell

I’m rapidly running out of body parts to do my job.

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L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 14d

I need a vacation for like a month. And by vacation I mean my bed and zero obligations. Maybe a claw-foot tub.

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Akotowaa @akotowaa.bsky.social · 19d

If you're attending Flights of Foundry this weekend, you can catch me at 2 events!
I'll be doing a reading from The Year of Return at hour 23 (for me, that's 3pm GMT today, Saturday) and moderating a panel called Honoring Indigeneity at hour 44 (for me, that's 12pm GMT tomorrow, Sunday).

Akotowaa @akotowaa.bsky.social · 25d

So, in all the online chatter about Netflix's Wednesday when it first came out, somehow it never crossed my timeline that Wednesday's dance uses choreography from the Tag Team music video made for the 1993 Addams Family Values film.

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Akotowaa @akotowaa.bsky.social · 26d

So how is it possible that Saara El-Arifi published 5 books in 4 years and has another on the way?? I didn’t think anyone could frighten me more than R.F. Kuang! What are they drinking?

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Akotowaa @akotowaa.bsky.social · 27d

Why would the word be vicegerent instead of viceregent? 😞

Akotowaa @akotowaa.bsky.social · 28d

Oh wait, I just remembered I wrote one this year. Under Clarion West-like duress (I had a 48-hour deadline).

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Akotowaa @akotowaa.bsky.social · 28d

I’ve done some revisions of previously drafted short stories, including CW stories. And I’ve done lots of writing for the novel-in-progress. But my brain has apparently put the knowledge of how to send a story from idea to draft into a jammed junk drawer. 2 years. Zero short stories.
This is GHETTO.

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Akotowaa @akotowaa.bsky.social · 28d

Okay so apparently I have not written any short stories since Clarion West 2023.
Jezos.

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Akotowaa @akotowaa.bsky.social · 28d

You’ve got to ask yourself sometimes, “Is it contradiction or is it nuance?”

Akotowaa @akotowaa.bsky.social · 29d

I am a bit epic fantasy trilogy-weary right now, I think.

Akotowaa @akotowaa.bsky.social · 29d

When the book tells you about the typeface it’s set in >>>>>

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Akotowaa @akotowaa.bsky.social · Sep 13

I just learned the word “melismatic” & I love it!

Akotowaa @akotowaa.bsky.social · Sep 12

You would think somebody rearranged my insides last night but no. Leg day at the gym did this to me.

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Wole Talabi @wtalabi.bsky.social · Sep 9

The Sauútiverse keeps expanding! Behold the cover for our 2nd anthology: Sauúti Terrors!

Following Mothersound, return to the Sauútiverse - our collectively-built, Afrocentric, matriarchal shared-world of strange planets & sound magic - for dark fantasy, SF & horror stories & poetry.

Jan 2026.

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Akotowaa @akotowaa.bsky.social · Sep 7

LETTER I: Friendship as a creative and healing Practice
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LETTER I: Friendship as a creative and healing Practice

A love letter to friendship, to co-creation, and to showing up with care. If you have been longing for deeper connections or wondering how to build them with intention, this one is for you.

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Akotowaa @akotowaa.bsky.social · Sep 4

The type of content I love to see.

Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · Sep 4

I love being a writer. It took me so long to get to a stable place to write. So many things are precarious and dangerous. I've not been well. There's so much trash going on and yet I am here teared up because I love this. I LOVE IT. I write books.
What a fucking dream come true.

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Akotowaa @akotowaa.bsky.social · Sep 2

My last 36 hours have been… ridiculous.
When Poetra Asantewa said “This country will kill you,” I felt that.
This place is full of preventable disasters.

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Akotowaa @akotowaa.bsky.social · Aug 31

Chale, my heart has really left this city. Sorry to Accra. But Accra is not sorry to me.

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Akotowaa @akotowaa.bsky.social · Aug 31

It’s okay that it’s bad before it’s good, sometimes.

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Akotowaa @akotowaa.bsky.social · Aug 31

😭😭😭😭

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Akotowaa @akotowaa.bsky.social · Aug 26

As for the people in the country with the green and white flag, I don’t even know what caliber of miracles is keeping anyone sane.

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Akotowaa @akotowaa.bsky.social · Aug 26

I mean, how can we be drowning in mediocrity & thinking it’s cute?

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