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— Michael Bungay Stanier
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Play A Bigger Game
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, creativity, Thoughts, Writers, writing on July 10, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Sun Above, Shadow Below
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, creativity, fantasy, free fiction, inspiration, Scott Lynch, sff, Writers, writing on July 9, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Scott Lynch is the author of a favorite series, The Gentleman Bastard (start with The Lies of Locke Lamora). His writing is crisp, clear, and clever, but not what I’d call copious. So imagine how pleased I was when a notification popped up in my inbox, letting me know that he has a short story out. Even better, it’s part of a free multi-author newsletter dedicated to sharing science fiction and fantasy every Sunday: The Sunday Morning Transport.
Here’s the story. If you’d like more weekly fiction, subscribe at the link above.
Selected Scenes from the Ecologies of the Labyrinth by Scott Lynch
Akayla Sethrys’s boot hits the door just below the lock.
She’s been kicking these things in for eight or nine years now and she knows where to put her emphasis. She favors a pair of bespoke basilisk leather and steel sabatons for this purpose; today some additional luck is with her in the form of rotten wood. Jagged wet splinters fly as the broken door slams inward, peeling out of its frame. Another dungeon chamber breached.
“Onward!” cries Sethrys, crouched over her shield, blade up for quick thrusts past the rim.
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Beyond All Doubt
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, creativity, inspiration, Thoughts, Writers, writing on July 8, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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How to Make Your Soul Grow
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, advice, art, artists, creativity, inspiration, Writers on July 5, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Kurt Vonnegut’s letter to the graduating class of New York’s Xavier High School is good advice for all artists, or anyone hoping to “experience becoming.”
Here it is read by another artistic treasure, Gandalf Ian McKellen:
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Relative Distance
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, books on July 2, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“The shortest distance between two people is a story.”
— Patti Digh
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Medieval Support Line
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, history, research, Thoughts, Writers, writing on June 30, 2024| Leave a Comment »
When you hear “Medieval Times” you may think of a slightly cheesy yet fun afternoon outing with knights and mead halls, but it was more than that. Populated by living, breathing (and dying) people just like us, this era laid the groundwork for civilizations to come. The fact that many of us know so little about it is our failing, not theirs. (Well, that and the fact that literacy was much less common than it is today!)
Not to worry! Professor of English and Medieval Literature Dr. Dorsey Armstrong is here to answer our questions.
Enjoy!
Why is it called the “Middle” Ages? What activities did people do for fun? Why were animals tried in court for crimes? Answers to these questions and many more await—it’s Medieval Support.
(Although it seems to have given George R.R. Martin far too many gory ideas.)
Why do I share this? You did see my previous post on time travel, right?
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Time to Go Back in Time?
Posted in Entertainment, Science!, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, Doctor Who, physics, research, Thoughts, time travel, Writers, writing on June 29, 2024| 1 Comment »
For those of you who enjoy time travel, thought exercises, physics, Doctor Who, or just hate bad time travel concepts (me!), here’s a fun and informative article.
The invisible dangers of travelling through time
The mishaps caused by time travellers exploring the past are a staple of science fiction. But what does physics think?
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Thing I’d Like to be A Thing
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, #Fridea, solutions, Thoughts on June 28, 2024| Leave a Comment »
For today’s “Thing I’d Like to be A Thing”:
Add a slight pixel shift for even and odd pages in e-readers, to encourage eyes to move side to side.
(and since we’re wishing, world peace)
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In Love and Rest
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, inspiration, poetry, Thoughts, Writers on June 27, 2024| Leave a Comment »
The Stars are Mansions Built by Nature’s Hand
The stars are mansions built by Nature’s hand,
And, haply, there the spirits of the blest
Dwell, clothed in radiance, their immortal vest;
Huge Ocean shows, within his yellow strand,
A habitation marvellously planned,
For life to occupy in love and rest …
— William Wordsworth
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Just One
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, action, creativity, indecision, inspiration, Thoughts, Writers, writing on June 26, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“Think of many things; do one.”
— Portuguese proverb
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