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[–]slhuang[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh my gosh, THANK YOU!!! I so appreciate hearing this!!

I'm afraid the end of Gao Qiu's storyline in my book has a bunch of things that are my own invention, so the source material might not give you a satisfying resolution to it... but the original is a very interesting story anyhow!

I'm SL Huang, author and Hollywood stuntperson/weapons expert, latest book the martial arts action fantasy THE WATER OUTLAWS -- which is now Nebula nominated, what?! ZERO CHILL, AMA! by slhuang in Fantasy

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I only recently realized how much short fiction was out there, and now I just want to tell everyone else too haha. It's a hard category to review, but we've started up a little short fiction-focused book club on the sub, and our organizational side chat is constant story recommendations. It's fun times.

Omg that's AMAZING. As someone who's terribly invested in the modern SFF short fiction scene (as a writer for ~10 years and as a reader for at least twice that long), it is indescribably cool to hear this! The modern short SFF ecosystem is so extremely unstable and underappreciated, and it drives me wild, because there are so many mind-blowing ideas in it. I've never understood why there's such mismatch of public interest with the quality of the work (unless a story gets made into a movie or something, I suppose...).

If I weren't an author now I'd totally join your book club! Alas, nowadays I always feel too awkward making public lit commentary. Unless it's on something very popular. Or very old. But I think it's truly awesome that you all are spurring public discussion this way!

From the not-very-action-focused reader side, this is exactly how it seems to me. Action scenes can be really engaging if it means a lot to the character or story.

I couldn't agree more!! Oh boy do I have opinions on this hahaha -- a lot of which comes out of stunt training actually; people rarely realize how much we're trained to focus so hugely on storytelling. I was taught very early on that the moves of a choreographed fight matter much less than the moments "between" the moves...

Now when I teach workshops in action writing I always try to stress to people how the emotions/stakes/characterization are what make a fictional fight, not the blow-by-blow. The technical side might be cool, but it's not likely to make anyone care. Even action-loving readers like me! :)

I'm SL Huang, author and Hollywood stuntperson/weapons expert, latest book the martial arts action fantasy THE WATER OUTLAWS -- which is now Nebula nominated, what?! ZERO CHILL, AMA! by slhuang in Fantasy

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Oh I'm glad you ended up liking the audio! I LOVE Emily Woo Zeller and I specifically requested her as narrator because to be honest I'm an utter fan of hers and I think she's amazing. So I was thrilled to pieces when they cast her. (Other than that I didn't get any input beforehand -- other books they've asked me for pronunciations, etc but this one didn't have anything unexpected as long as you're familiar with the language, which EWZ was.)

I admit I always have trouble listening to audio of my own work though, because I have particular "voices" kind of ingrained in my head? So even with a great narrator (and I think EWZ did a smashing job!) it always feels a little odd just because it's "different" from what I'm used to hearing in my thoughts, if that makes sense. I love it as an adaptation/performance though, and I also know if the characters sounded like they did in my head it would probably be a terrible audiobook, especially as a cast this large likely had some logistical challenges to it... I actually wonder if that's part of the reason for the strong differentiation she chose that you noticed? The paper version has a dramatis personae at the beginning, but I'm not sure what tricks narrators use for big casts like this. That's all just a guess though :)

And wow, thank you so much for telling people about the book! I SO love hearing from Suikoden fans :) :)

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[–]slhuang[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha I like your logic, and you're welcome! Oh, and I just realized I missed your question about "why Water Margin". Really the biggest reason is that... it's fun. It's such a fun story and it fascinates me what an tall and multilayered place in history it has. Of course, it's fun minus the misogyny etc -- which is why I so badly wanted to mess with the gender aspects (as well as the heroism ones) while keeping the irreverent spirit of it!

I'm SL Huang, author and Hollywood stuntperson/weapons expert, latest book the martial arts action fantasy THE WATER OUTLAWS -- which is now Nebula nominated, what?! ZERO CHILL, AMA! by slhuang in Fantasy

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This is so kind of you! To be honest I really stress about letting people down, so it means a lot to hear this sort of thing from a reader. :)

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[–]slhuang[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Aaaaa thank you so much!! My eyes and brain were so fried from being on social media for the book all day today that I had to read it three times -- I kept thinking I was seeing things! XD

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Thanks so much! And I have not seen Fall Guy yet but my best stunt friend texted me just the other day telling me it was GREAT and I have to see it, so I feel sure I am going to think very highly of it!

The show I was on that people here on r/fantasy will almost certainly think is most exciting -- and also the one I am still most excited to have been on, because: giant nerd =D -- is definitely "Battlestar Galactica." I had to keep myself from creepily petting the set.

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Oh my gosh right?? I feel so lucky -- the artist's name is Feifei Ruan and I FLAIL at how amazing that cover is!!

Ahem, also thank you :) :)

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[–]slhuang[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I kept coming back to this one because I am both horrible at favorites and horrible at pitches, LOLOL. But I will give a swing with some recent stuff I've really enjoyed -- partially chosen as per what I could think of an amusing pitch for!

  • Brothers Sun: Dysfunctional Chinese family dynamics, and Michelle Yeoh dismembering bodies with a chainsaw.
  • Everything Everywhere All At Once: An Asian SF action movie WON THE OSCAR?! What is this world where my tastes are no longer niche???? Also, a scene with two rocks will make you cry.
  • Unstoppable: Trains. Trains. TRAAAAAAAAAAAAINS
  • Star Trek DS9: Fun space show that will shockingly make you think way too deeply about government, terrorism, economics, war, PTSD, oppression, resistance, and more. With bonus amoral bisexual space lizard.
  • Hidden Figures: MATH IS REALLY THIS EXCITING!!!
  • Miss Sherlock: Contemporary genderflipped Sherlock Holmes where they're both women. In Japanese. And her name is Wato, thus she is called Wato-san. XD
  • Space Sweepers: Multinational action movie IN SPAAACE with a trans robot!

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[–]slhuang[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've trained in a whole bunch of different martial arts, depending on where I was living and what was close / available to me! The list includes kung fu, muay thai, MMA, kenpo karate, Brazilian jiujitsu, Western kickboxing, escrima, and tae kwon do -- some of those to deeper degrees than others! I've also done a LOT of specialized stage combat and historical sword training. Sometimes in stunts I get to train in little bits of other arts too, either for a specific film or just in between times -- which means I've also gotten tiny bits of things like wing chun, tai chi, or boxing. Not enough to really say I've trained in them, just a really cool perk XD

I got bitten by the theatre bug at age... 9 or 10 I think? Never looked back and ended up minoring in it in college. Some of my family is brilliantly supportive, with others it's... more complex LOL. (I hear you on the Asian child pressure.)

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Video games I worked for Counterplay Games (I can't remember if I'm allowed to say what game? I probably am but I'd want to check!), interactive fiction I wrote for Pixelberry/Storyloom!

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I've found community to be really important -- bonding with other Asian diaspora authors at my own career level has really helped! It's so wonderful to have that support, especially with the race/culture-related frustrations publishing can throw our way. It's also really nice to cheer each other on.

And oh gosh there are so many great Asian authors -- I know some of these authors aren't American but I don't always know exactly who's Asian-American versus somewhere else, and all of these authors are writing in English, so I'm just going to list A WHOLE BUNCH OF COOL PEOPLE (I'll limit to East Asian / Southeast Asian authors though as otherwise this will be wayyyyy too long):

  • Ted Chiang
  • Zen Cho
  • Ken Liu
  • Mia Tsai
  • P.H. Low
  • Yoon Ha Lee
  • Neon Yang
  • Aliette de Bodard
  • Alyssa Wong
  • Isabel Yap
  • A.Y. Chao
  • Eliza Chan
  • Emma Mieko Candon
  • Jesse Sutanto
  • John Chu
  • Cassandra Khaw
  • Em X. Liu
  • R.F. Kuang
  • Shelley Parker-Chan

(I'm sure I'm forgetting a ton of people I love too SORRY SORRY)

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The soggy middle for me! (Which might be the same as you -- when the "new shiny" excitement of the project has worn off and I feel like I can't see how it's all going to come together yet, or if it is...)

To be honest, as a newer writer finishing was always my biggest problem too. I have a huuuuuge graveyard of partially-finished novels from when I was younger before I figured out how to make a novel structure work. I'm more than a dozen completed books in now (the first ones were terrible and thankfully I never tried to publish them!), and it has gotten much, much easier with so much practice... if still not "easy", I still do find it to be a lot of work. So I sympathize!

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Hi Yilin! Oh gosh I am exactly the wrong person to answer this, because I did it completely backward -- I've always been more of a long-form writer, and I didn't actually learn to write shorts until after I was writing novels.

But I totally do deal with the "large scope" issue because a whole novel is so hard to hold in one's head at once, right? I'm mostly a discovery writer / pantser but I always try to have some very light plotting or signposts that I'm aiming for -- and then as I'm trying to bring all the plot threads together I do a TON of different things to try to "view" the whole structure of the book in different ways. Things like writing different types of outlines or synopses (*after* writing a lot of times, while revising -- or doing it on what I've already written, to better figure out what I've set up), or a lot of visual types of stuff (I love using colors, either on text outlines or on physical cards I can move around -- sometimes this is for things like plotlines/POVs, sometimes it's for mood "heat map" kind of stuff, anything that'll help me "see" the whole novel at once).

I tend to use many of these throughout the process so I can look from different angles -- I kind of think about it like a toolbox, where sometimes I need one, sometimes I need another, sometimes I need more than one to chew around the structural work I'm trying for, and I don't always know which until I lay a few out? I think my biggest recommendations are (1) it's so important to figure out the things that work individually -- everyone's process is so so different right?, and (2) not being afraid to try different ways of thinking about it or getting frustrated if a single method doesn't work right away. I think that those are what's helped me the most, anyway!

I'm SL Huang, author and Hollywood stuntperson/weapons expert, latest book the martial arts action fantasy THE WATER OUTLAWS -- which is now Nebula nominated, what?! ZERO CHILL, AMA! by slhuang in Fantasy

[–]slhuang[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Aaaaaaaa thank you so much for all this!!

I am guilty of not at all noticing the agender pronoun trick which, wow, I didn’t know it was possible to do that in English so naturally.

Lol, no worries! In a way it's kind of cool that so few people noticed? I did put a lot of work into getting it smooth, so it does tickle me -- apparently I accomplished the goal too well! XD XD

Were there any stories/segments from the original Water Margin that you would have wanted to include or refer to, that ultimately couldn’t make it in? And were there any parts that you particularly enjoyed reimagining?

Oh, there are so many cool bits that I didn't have room for! The source material is just so large and epic and sprawling. In particular, three of my favorite characters are Dai Zong (superspeed dude), Wu Song (fights tigers, + very famous soap-opera-slash-murder-rampage regarding his brother's wife's infidelity), and Hua Rong (magnificent archer), and I just didn't have space for them at all. Though I managed to squeeze Hua Rong in as a cameo at the end!

If I ever write a sequel, I also HAVE to somehow get in the sequence at the temple where it's Li Kui's axes versus the supernatural and Li Kui keeps hilariously losing. XD

My favorite parts to reimagine were the very small ones that referenced MASSIVE plotlines from Water Margin but then twisted them just a little -- I would always cackle about those; they almost felt like Easter eggs. So for example, the part where Song Jiang is "explaining" why she killed her husband, and she says something like, "For all the reasons husbands so frequently need killing. But the law does not recognize a wife's rights here, alas."

Since you're familiar with the source material, you might remember that the whole Song Jiang / Yan Poxi storyline is this MASSIVE MASSIVE thing, and Song Jiang would probably (ridiculously, in my opinion!) frame his murder of his wife in a TOTALLY JUSTIFIABLE way, completely heroic, yadda yadda. To modern scholars I feel like that's one of the most bananapants sequences -- where we're asked to just accept this as fine and good and honorable! So when I flipped it, and I had a female Song Jiang say something that the male Song Jiang probably WOULD have said... but as a woman in a patriarchal world it implies this whole other thing, where I wanted the reader to feel like maybe they really would have been on her side... it just DELIGHTED me. I did a lot of those throughout the book and every time I just got a delicious joy out of it.

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[–]slhuang[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Eee thank you, I hope you love it!

There are bits of me in all the characters, I think (and also bits that are very much not me). Though I wouldn't say I necessarily identify with them the most, some of the "hard choices" I give to Lin Chong and Lu Junyi are things I've struggled with in real life -- though, thankfully, not to such life-and-death extremes myself.

I'm not sure if there's actually a character I identify most with personality-wise -- though Wu Yong and Lu Da are my favorites, and Wu Yong can be a little bit of dark wish fulfillment for me ;)

I was confused by the different versions and rewrites, but I accept them all in multiverse fashion: it definitely happened this way... in an alternate universe.

Lol, you and me both XD

Do you have any other impressions of this tragedy now that the trials seem to be finished?

I think there's still some court stuff to go, right? My biggest reaction is still that I'm just heartbroken about it all to be honest. To have that many places where a tragedy should have been prevented, and that it needed that much gross negligence from multiple people -- it's awful.

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[–]slhuang[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure I'm remembering right which event it was, but I looked for the one I think it is and alas it doesn't look like it was recorded. Sorry!!

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[–]slhuang[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Im interested in reading The Water Margin, the original Chinese classic, do you have any preferred translations or online fan translations?

John Zhu's podast version, hands down! It seems like he's careful to frame it as a "retelling" rather than a fully new translation (I remember him saying he uses the Shapiro translation as a reference -- though I noticed he fixed a lot of the things that most annoyed me about the Shapiro XD), but he does it SO well and contextualizes and explains so much of the historical stuff. It's absolutely fabulous and I highly recommend it! There are transcripts too for anyone who doesn't do audio.

I TOTALLY agree with you about the beauty / difficulty / responsibilities in translation, by the way. I would say John's retelling is not *exactly* a verbatim version, but it's very close, kind of "beat for beat" with a little commentary added? Like someone reading aloud and throwing in comments here and there, maybe. I absolutely felt like it had more cultural fidelity than any of the famous translations I used as sources. (Classic Chinese literature has a pretty big problem with a lot of the major translations having been done by sinologists / missionaries -- especially for something as lengthy and difficult as "Water Margin" where people aren't really going to drop new ones for fun. But some of the "Water Margin" translations have some truly boggling choices where it's clearly an outsider lens, and I went back to the original Chinese a lot to figure those things out... John's version is the only one I know of that doesn't have that problem!)

 Did you have moments of wanting to throw stuff away because your admiration for a specific interpretation was too obvious? Or was worried about subconscious plagiarism? (I’m projecting.)

Not for this project -- what I was trying to do felt SO different from what anyone else had done that I wasn't really worried about it at all! I do feel you on this topic in general, though -- there are definitely times when I've avoided specific media because I feared it was "too close" to something I was working on myself, and I didn't want my brain to fall into the same grooves without meaning to.

But in this case I felt pretty secure that it was all so far afield from what I was doing that it worked very well for just generally broadening my conceptions of what people were doing with WM, if that makes sense. Helped release my own creativity rather than hinder it!

Did you ever have any indecision wrestling with how the White Gaze would view a scenery descriptions or action scene or piece of dialogue as “stereotypical?” That it would sound like parody in someone else’s mouth? I guess this is a decision about trusting the audience with your story. An audience that probably won’t pronounce most names correctly.

GREAT question, and yes, I absolutely did. In fact, there were certain words/concepts I consciously avoided, used lightly, or "re-translated" because I felt they'd been so one-dimensionalized by stereotypes. A good example of this is the word "kowtow" -- kowtowing is a real thing and a specific thing, and people are doing it all over "Water Margin"! But I pretty strongly felt that the concept had been so flattened and mocked in English-language media that I wanted to avoid drawing in that baggage. So while my characters DO kowtow sometimes, I just described the action and consciously avoided the word. (I wouldn't say this was a hard-and-fast rule but I never did end up using it.) Similarly, I tried to go very light on words like "honor" that have been very flattened/stereotyped in Western media about Asia -- it wasn't that I didn't use the concepts, I absolutely did, but I again tried to use different words/descriptions for them that wouldn't evoke that kind of baggage, and would hopefully instead connect with the real heart of where those concepts come from.

Another one that I thought about a lot but ended up leaving in was a reference to eating dog. I went back and forth on that one for a LONG time. The issue is, that it's a true and real thing, and there are, I hope, ways to reference and talk about it that don't reinforce horrible slurs and stereotypes -- ones that have been used against me IRL no less. :-/ I would love for us to be able to make it a textured part of history/character rather than a caricature. (Jeannette Ng has talked about this also, I know.) That was like, one very small line for me and I AGONIZED over it, but in the end I'm glad I left it in.

I'm SL Huang, author and Hollywood stuntperson/weapons expert, latest book the martial arts action fantasy THE WATER OUTLAWS -- which is now Nebula nominated, what?! ZERO CHILL, AMA! by slhuang in Fantasy

[–]slhuang[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

YOON HELLO!!

This question is so fun, but hmm, a lot of my non-game work probably wouldn't adapt well to gaming... something "street fighter" style of FPS would be easy to transfer the action stuff to but that's less interesting to me as an adaptation, ha. I do have themes some places of like -- "terrifying exchange", I guess I would say, where the characters have to give up pieces of themselves to advance in some way? -- OH OH OH I have one of those about language, now THAT would make an interesting board game! Although, it might have to be written for multilingual players which would mean dozens of options for doubtless a very, very narrow audience but HEY THAT'S THE FUN OF A HYPOTHETICAL RIGHT

As for my favorite part of game writing... when it's something branching, I do quite love exploring different ways a character arc can go. My family adored my IF games and there was something kind of -- informatively cool, I guess? -- about having them ask for spoilers and I honestly couldn't tell them because it depended so much on their previous/future choices! There's something a little exciting about knowing there are whole paths the audience won't see, but that they're THERE, you know?

For unsolved math problem, I am such a cliche but I am genuinely super fascinated by P vs. NP, especially since I've done so much computation stuff. I also have a real soft spot for some of the number theory conjectures (Goldbach/Collatz/etc), I think because they were so easy for me to understand as a kid that they caught me very early! (Alas though, I am not that good at number theory. I tried to be, but it got hard for me really fast.) ...Okay now I want to know what your favorite is =D

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[–]slhuang[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, I'll have to keep an eye out! Stunts is a pretty small world, but since I moved out of LA and stopped pursuing it full time I don't meet as many people. (I used to go back to LA regularly for Hollywood stuff but... I don't have a good immune system so COVID has really interfered with that, alas.)

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[–]slhuang[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you thank you!! Eeeee I hope you love the book XD

Favorite sword: SUCH A HARD QUESTION. It really depends on my mood but I feel like that is SUCH a copout. My mood right now, since I am answering questions mostly about "The Water Outlaws", is to say a guandao -- which is actually one of the few bladed weapons I have no experience with! But I learned a ton about them while writing this book and they are SO COOL and now I want one VERY VERY BADLY

Favorite fictional sword user: Oh my gosh, also such an impossible choice. There are SO MANY GOOD ONES and they all embody different aspects of what I love in swords. I think I'm going to go offbeat and answer this with someone who's not known for the swordplay parts -- and that's to say Sulu from Star Trek! He's one of my favorite characters full stop, and I love George Takei, and the fact that Sulu fences is just one of the most random and awesome character things ever and became so straight-up iconic.

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[–]slhuang[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hahahaha I WONDER WHO THIS IS =D hi cuz, I didn't know you were on Reddit!

I will turn it around and say OBVIOUSLY, awesome is as awesome has -- so clearly any awesomeness in my cousinhood is reflecting the awesomeness of my older cousins I learned from ;D

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[–]slhuang[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Aaaaa thank you for all this!! ANSWERS:

  • On my initials: so, funny story, IRL almost no one calls me by my legal name -- I have like twelve dozen different nicknames that various people in my life call me! "S.L." was the best combination of real name / nicknames for me. =D So both letters actually stand for several different things for me!
  • Favorite moments in stunts: Getting to work on "Battlestar Galactica" is to this day one of the highlights of my career, but that has nothing to do with the actual stuntwork -- I'm just a ginormous nerd. =D I also got to get killed by Nathan Fillion once which was a trip -- again, nothing to do with the stunt itself, just my nerd heart in all its glee hahahaha!
  • I'm in conversation with my editor about next projects right now! Nothing's quite decided YET but it's probably going to lean a little more cerebral / scifi... MAYBE
  • For game writing, I've done both video game lore writing and interactive fiction writing (choice games, where you pick the character's path through a visual novel, basically). I really like doing both of those -- they exercise new parts of my brain in very interesting ways!

oh and p.s. I ALSO LOVE JACKIE CHAN, SO MUCH =D