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Mar 26Liked by Elizabeth Tai

Hi, Elizabeth. I am a forest scientist, with a Substack due to launch next week. I was a professor at the University of Kentucky for many years and worked in Indonesia and Malaysia for a good part of that time. I was based at UPM. I am trying to get my Bahasa Melayu back to where it was. I don’t get enough practice. I’m writing my second book, about the relationships between people and trees, and some of the stories are set in Malaysia and Indonesia. I’m glad you are doing this.

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Hello! My name is Sean. I'm a writer from the Bay Area, mostly spinning yarns in the Horror and Speculative genres. I'm new to the platform and only a year into my writer's journey. Excited to read your tales!

https://seanthomasmcdonnell.substack.com/

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Hello! Followed a share from Simon K Jones of your most recent post which was a fun read, and the toddler with fangs sealed the sub. 😻 I’m using Substack to develop a writing practice, as I love having written, but am terrible at giving myself the time and space to do it for my own purposes. I’m most successful in creating sustainable rhythms with a light element of accountability, and I’ve had folks who don’t want to wait to support my writing, they want to support me, writing. So, I invite them — and you — to witness the process. 🫶🏼 https://open.substack.com/pub/kirstengriffith?r=7lr&utm_medium=ios

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Hello! I'm Chandra, and I first saw your account on my Notes feed because Scoot replied to a note of yours, so I went over to your Substack to check it out, and 1. I like your posts 2. I saw you calling yourself a "multipassionate writer with far too many interests" and thought, "Same!"

Over on my Substack I mostly write horror & surrealist flash fiction (some of it may be described as literary fiction?), and I've also got some fantasy & sci-fi projects which I hope to post more about, accompanied by some original art and (hopefully!!) soon some music as well

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Hello Elizabeth. My name is Melvin. I read your piece in social and that resonated with me. These platforms offer great opportunities as a creative outlet, but function on systems and features that can cause you to abandon your writing ideals. If you're not careful you'll find yourself writing to keep up with an ever-changing algorithm instead of pursuing your obsessions. Thank you for sharing that. I hope you'll post more pieces like those because they act as a check to remind you of why you started your journey.

As for my thing, I write fiction at the intersection of pop culture, the bizarre, and suspense. I recently started posting a webcomic in chapters on my website, and want to take my storytelling into other formats 😁

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May 14, 2023Liked by Elizabeth Tai

Hello! I write stuff (research) professionally but the really important stuff I do in my spare time: children’s stories and a nonfiction book about Russia with considerable self-biographical parts from my four years in the country I the 90s. I also write science-fiction on existential themes. I love science-fiction :-)

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Hi Elizabeth, I chanced upon your Substack and thought to myself “Wow, technical writer and novelist with her own digital garden? I’ve got to reach out to ask her how she did it.”

(I also really liked your post on Chinese but not Chinese!)

Anyway, I write a newsletter on Southeast Asian artists, writers and creatives on Spice Route Stories. Would love to speak with you on it if you’re keen!

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G'day, Elizabeth. I'm an Australian writer of light sci-fi and supernatural fiction. Sometimes I delve into weird fiction, the kind one might find in the Twilight Zone. You can find me at https://larrikinbooks.com, and not so much on Facebook (as part of a personal journey away from it).

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Hi Elizabeth. I'm Anne and also have a Substack (because OF COURSE I do! hahaha). As a painter, writer and comics artist, I am drawn to those who write about art and art process and just why the hell we do this thing that doesn't seem to matter. But I am here to say that it does matter, not only for those of us who can't help but create from that inner well, but for the people who read and view our work. At the most bleak times in the last 7 years, a comment has knocked me out of my self pity party when it says, "I'm SO GLAD to read what you've written. It helped me get through this week/day/year" I'm over at "Finding My Inner Panda" on Substack, but also at The Panda Chronicles.

( https://yourbrainonpandas.com )

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Hi Elizabeth, I'm Colin Devonshire. English but have been in Thailand over 30 years. I write short dark tales.

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Greetings! I write fantasy and scifi short stories, mostly. There are novellas and novels over on my SubStack too but the current project is creating a big collection of short stories in many speculative fiction genres.

I too struggle with reading, but in a different way. I have no problem reading the many SubStacks I'm subbed too, the problem is with books. I am feast or famine. I read 15 books in January and February but since then have only read 4. I hope you have found a solution to reading all the 'Stacks out there!

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I signed up on Substack to test it out for my newsletter on iSophism, but am pleasantly surprised to see it as a place for fiction and poetry! I'm looking forward to seeing how you work this. Just laid claim to Poetica Machina for myself.

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Hi! Just up from a short nap (raining here in seri kembangan 😊) and before that was reading a book (Goodbye, Beautiful by Dorothy Koomson) that I got from our community library. A leisure sunday & hope u too have the same 😁

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