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Progress, Yes Please
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, history on April 29, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Life Advice
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, Thoughts on April 23, 2023| Leave a Comment »
How to Grow Up: Nick Cave’s Life-Advice to a 13-Year-Old – The Marginalian
How to harness youth’s centripetal curiosity as a creative force for bettering the world is what Nick Cave — himself an insightful reckoner with the art of growing older — explores in answering a 13-year-old boy’s question about how to live a full, creative, actualized, spiritually rich life in “a world ridden with so much hate, and disconnect.”
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Eco-Friendly Fiction
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, inspiration on April 22, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Five SF Stories Set in Eco-Friendly Futures | Tor.com
In case you need some reading suggestions. I think we could all use a bit of climate optimism, don’t you?
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Current Quandary
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, Thoughts, writing on April 20, 2023| Leave a Comment »
My current quandary: My daily post streak here at the blog has been going, in one form or another, since January 1, 2021. It’s not a long time by some measures, but it’s a long time for me, and I don’t want to break it.
My problem is that I am about to head off to the Writers of the Future workshop. The schedule looks like a wall of ink, with classes and other events scheduled for at least twelve hours a day, most days. Plus reading, plus writing. That leaves not a lot of time for thoughtful posts, or even the quote and a pretty picture kind.
That leaves me with a challenge: Pre-schedule posts, sure, but with what? I toyed with the idea of putting up a serialized version of a story, but that will require more thought than I can give it right now. Instead, I’m going to regale you with a random selection from my “what’s interesting” folder.
I imagine there will be some material on space, writing, art, food and people, all the good stuff. Good news, a lot of it is actually pretty interesting. Enjoy!
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The Real Things
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, inspiration, Thoughts, Writers, writing on April 14, 2023| 1 Comment »
“The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Going Places
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, creativity, inspiration, Thoughts, writing on April 13, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
— Albert Einstein
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Define Success
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, creativity, Fiction, success, Thoughts, Writers, writing on April 12, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Success is not about winning a competition. It’s about making a contribution.
— Adam Grant
Takers aim to be better than others. Givers strive to bring out the best in others. The most meaningful way to succeed is to help others succeed.
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What May Be
Posted in Science!, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, climate change, science, Thoughts, writing on April 11, 2023| 2 Comments »
What will the world look, feel and sound like by 2100? For those of us who imagine possible futures, the graphics in this article may be helpful.
Climate change is forcing map makers to redraw the world
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Past Is Future
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, genre fiction, history, inspiration, Thoughts, Writers, writing on April 10, 2023| Leave a Comment »
What did the futurologists of a century ago think our era would be like? And how close will today’s predictions be in a hundred years?
See predictions for 2023 from 1923 newspapers
“Watch-size radio telephones will keep everybody in communication with the ends of the earth,” they added, hitting the nail on the head.
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Be A Unique Egg, Not A Perfect One
Posted in Holidays, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, creativity, Easter, inspiration, Thoughts, Writers on April 9, 2023| Leave a Comment »
May you have a creative and happy Easter!
Ukrainian newcomers teaching the art of pysanka ahead of Easter
“I think that the main thing for the artists is to show their feelings, express their feelings, with the lines and with the colours and with the style they’re using. When you will be focusing only on the process and just your aim will be to get the perfect pysanka, at the end you can lose something. You have to look inside—what you have inside—what you want to show in your piece. Maybe your feelings, maybe your sadness, maybe your happiness, something to share with people. And you can show it on the surface of pysanka. This is the most important. And we don’t need ten perfect pysankas, we need ten unique pysankas with unique feelings on it.
— Oksana, Ukrainian who came to Canada in 2022, at a pysanky-making workshop in Ottawa
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