Japlish
Maya Rushing WalkerIn between cultures and languages, American and Japanese.
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3.4 GPT hallucinations
don’t ignore the signs
I’ve been digging deep into medieval Japan lately. I’m writing a novel set in that time and place, and of course the more you read the more you find. It sprawls, because culture sprawls. I started with a person, whic...
3.4 confronting my laziness
it’s hard and sometimes i hate it so I buy expensive fountain pens and spend hours filling them and cleaning them
I took a picture of two of the pages in my book because sometimes I really hate these pages and I didn’t know what else to do...
3.3 a bit of language learning advice
my new Japanese study effort
Someone somewhere on Substack said recently that in order to combat our self-doubt and lack of productivity, we could write short essays instead of the thorough, lengthy pieces that we might feel are what we ou...
3.2 crowding
the street near the Arashimaya tram stop in Kyoto, April 2025
I just returned from 3+ weeks in Japan, my second trip in six months. I’m researching a historical novel and also wanted to introduce my husband to a country he’d heard so much...
3.1 the start of new things
Random shrine with cherry blossoms along the Philosopher’s Walk in Kyoto, March 2025.
I started this newsletter a few years ago, and after stalling out a couple of times, went completely dark. The pandemic hit hard for my college-age kids,...
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New England writer from Hawaii in a 1780s colonial, currently working on a Japanese historical novel. I speak Japlish—yes, it is my native tongue.
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