Esmé Weijun Wang
📚The Collected Schizophrenias, The Border of Paradise
🏆 Best of Young American Novelists, Whiting Award, NYT Bestseller
🎓 Writing classes @ unexpectedshapeacademy.com
🇹🇼🌈♿️ she/her
🌱My interesting website @ esmewang.com
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- They said to track our electricity usage with each appliance in our house. To go & watch the meter change and record it for every single appliance. (We did not do that.) I don’t think our electricity usage has changed THAT much, but God, have our electricity bills skyrocketed in the last few years.
- We’ve been feeling that as well, to the point where I called the company because I was convinced the meter was wrong
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- "...living with limitations means developing a different relationship with completion. Where others might see abandoned projects as evidence of failure, I see them as proof of making an effort despite all evidence to the contrary." www.reasonsforliving.co/p/the-museum... 👏 @esmewang.com is brilliant
- thank you for reading ❤️❤️❤️❤️
- "[Writer's block is] the internal critic gone haywire, the imposter syndrome that whispers you're not good enough, smart enough, or talented enough to tell this story." www.reasonsforliving.co/p/when-the-t... (@esmewang.com with some brilliant wisdom on writing, as ever)
- thank you so much ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
- I’ve found @esmewang.com’s free guides helpful and generative. This class could help get your memoir started!
- I’m teaching a new (& free!) class called Shape Your Story: How to Create a Full-Length Memoir with Confidence next week—It’s esp good for people who’ve written short pieces, such as blogs or Substack posts, & want to write memoir. Live class, but recording available: esmewang.com/shape-your-story
- Thank you so much!
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- Because I couldn’t message you—
- A really interesting (& brutal) piece about the commodification of Black identity in the art market in 2020-2022, & the opportunists who inflated art prices, only to devalue the same Black artists later
- I’m teaching a new (& free!) class called Shape Your Story: How to Create a Full-Length Memoir with Confidence next week—It’s esp good for people who’ve written short pieces, such as blogs or Substack posts, & want to write memoir. Live class, but recording available: esmewang.com/shape-your-story
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- This is so helpful! Thank you—if it’s not TOO heavy, I think we could manage it. Much gratitude to you for this generous advice ❤️
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- I have POTS and did not know about coat hanger pain, but I think I have it! Is it possible to only have it in the neck and one shoulder/arm?
- A dorky question (and tailored-made, I think, for @bcdreyer.social): I often want to put a comma after an independent clause even if the clause that comes after it is a dependent one—because I hear it in my head as having a pause. What’s the rule there? What’s best practice w/literary fiction?
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- Good to know! Thank you. Copyeditors are my heroes.
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- Hi Dorothy!!! I love you and your books!!!!!!!!
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- Well, it all started with the employees of a restaurant called SUR, which stands for Sexy Unique Restaurant… (And yes, this is true.)
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- My husband (who has a handicapped spot placard) certainly got a kick out of it.
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- Thank you for this wisdom! Can I somehow download your knowledge into my brain? I will trade you for a LOT of knowledge about the storylines and characters of Vanderpump Rules
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- Oh hi, Matt! Glad to have you join the discussion!
- I feel like yesterday that video was EVERYWHERE. People I know who have zero interest in disability issues were sharing it in their bro Discord chats.
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- I could definitely be persuaded to remove it! Out of curiosity, for these kinds of sentences—how do you make the judgment call when your “mental ear” hears it a certain way?
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- You’ll know more hopefully in not TOO too long ❤️
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- Oh my gosh, what a fun response! Thank you so much; I’ll jot that term down in my notes. I could be persuaded that I use it too much, and there are certainly times when I could reconfigure the sentence to avoid the issue. (& thank you so much, dear friend, for the kind word about the sentence.)
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- “It didn’t help that Cyprian’s youth had also conjured a grotesque jump-rope rhyme, which shocked Sabina anew when she heard it in the carpeted hallways of the Asters or on the playground in the Santa Marias’ K-8 school." I would rather put a comma before "or on the playground."
- My husband had a really strong grammatical education (taught by the Jesuits, after all), and I often feel very in the weeds about such things.
- (And yes, I did look up the answer, but I’m curious to know if what I found holds true in the minds of people who work primarily with literature.)
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- It’s for me—a chair to have someone push when I’m feeling weak or too fatigued
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- I use a fountain pen, but I think it has less to do with the pen/ink and more to do with having learned over the years to hold my hand in a way that doesn’t smear easily—good luck!!!
- ever since i read her excellent book, the collected schizophrenias, i've looked up to esme weijun wang as an amazing #mentalhealth role model. here she is via bbc ideas talking about her diagnosis & how to break the stigma youtu.be/vYrkcZTFllk?...
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- ❤️❤️so grateful thank you!!!!
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- BEAUTY
- Pupdate for people who’ve missed Daphne on their screens.
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- If you see this, post the most recent photo of yourself from your camera roll. No cheating!
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- Hi friend!!!!! I’ve missed you!
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- I love this ❤️❤️❤️
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- I think I’m going to try & stick around here for a bit! ❤️
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- This has long been a pet peeve of mine—authors stating they’re coming to “San Francisco,” whether verbally or casually in a text, and then I go to the tour page and it’s actually Carmel or whatnot. It’s fine to go there!!! Just don’t make me think it’s something TOTALLY different!
- I keep thinking I’m getting close to being done with the newest novel, & then I am delayed by things like cancer and depression and whatnot but IT WILL COME EVENTUALLY, I PROMISE
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- I think it doesn’t help that so many artists and makers of all kinds are WAY harder on themselves than they’d be to their favorite artist/maker/writer/etc EVER
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- The idea of putting meth in Xanax
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- that’s so kind of you, thank you ❤️❤️❤️
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- I’m supposed to fly out of SFO next week on United 🫣
- this made me laugh in the most delighted way…
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- lol no way it was the best
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- enjoy!
- thank you so much ❤️❤️❤️
- I don’t promote all of my Reasons for Living posts here—but most of the posts are free, and if you can’t afford a paid subscription, just DM me and I’ll comp you one, no questions asked ❤️
- A very nice article by Esme Weijun Wang, the author of The Collective Schizophrenias. The Courage to Question Your Doctor www.reasonsforliving.co/p/the-courag...
- A very nice article by Esme Weijun Wang, the author of The Collective Schizophrenias. The Courage to Question Your Doctor www.reasonsforliving.co/p/the-courag...
- thank you so much for reading ❤️
