“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
― Scott Adams
Nothing finished today but I live, as always, in hope.
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Nothing Today
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2022, creativity, Thoughts, Writers, writing on April 15, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Mirror and Inspiration
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2022, creativity, Fiction, future, genre fiction, history, humanity, inspiration, sff, The Expanse, Thoughts, writing on April 14, 2022| Leave a Comment »
This interesting article discusses space exploration as an extension of the frontier mentality, how humanity’s complications underly a lot of science fiction, and asks, “Are the stars better off without us?”
A few years ago, in an attempt to lose myself in something other than winter lethargy, I became enthralled with The Expanse, a space drama that asks: what if humanity became a multiplanetary species? What would happen next?
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“So much of the show is about resources and scarcity and the connection between economics and history”
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It’s easy to write off The Expanse as “just” science fiction, but the ideas that the show wrestles with are important. Science fiction both holds a mirror to culture and acts as a source of inspiration.
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Today’s a Little Foggy
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2022, creativity, scrambled brain parts, Thoughts, Writers on April 13, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Pretty much me, at work today…
Calvin: I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog! Want to see my book report?
― Bill Watterson, Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat
Hobbes: (Reading Calvin’s paper) “The Dynamics of Interbeing and Monological Imperatives in Dick and Jane: A Study in Psychic Transrelational Gender Modes.”
Calvin: Academia, here I come!
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Who Says You Can’t?
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2022, inspiration, quotes, Thoughts, work on April 12, 2022| Leave a Comment »
“Talent counts in my book—but effort counts twice.”
― Angela Duckworth
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Very Good Dragons
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2022, Clarkesworld, creativity, Fiction, free fiction, genre fiction, inspiration, Naomi Kritzer, sff, Writers, writing on April 11, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Fun free fiction for folks. Because Monday. And because you can’t have enough dragons.
The Dragon Project by Naomi Kritzer : Clarkesworld Magazine
“We’ve now created dragons for you twice, you’ve had the opportunity to inspect our work at every step of the way, and both times you’ve refused to take delivery. Timothy is a very good dragon, and you don’t deserve him anyway. You’re fired.”
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Inquiring Minds Want to Know
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2022, education, options, reading, think, Thoughts on April 4, 2022| 1 Comment »
If your library is not “unsafe,” it probably isn’t doing its job.
— John Berry
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Are We There Yet?
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2022, creativity, Thoughts, yay on April 3, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Like most kids I spent a lot of time on road trips asking, “Are we there yet?” It wasn’t that I wanted to arrive, necessarily. I liked the road part of road trips, with the ever-changing scenery, the usually forbidden foods from exotic restaurants like McDonald’s, and the sense of making progress.
I enjoy progress, the sense of action, of leveling up. I also really like finishing things, but some days that’s not in the cards. That’s particularly true on days when I am learning a new genre, a new technique, or a new idea. Those days, I have to be satisfied with knowing that I’ve moved that much farther down the road.
I spent much of my fun time today learning more about designing for 3D objects. By the end of the afternoon my screen looked like this:
Yes, my brain is now as scrambled as you might think, but it’s a fun project. And soon I won’t just be moving toward my destination, I’ll be there.
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It’s Monday. Remain Calm.
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2022, Fiction, free fiction, genre fiction, Nature's Futures, sff, Thoughts, Writers, writing on March 28, 2022| Leave a Comment »
For fun today we have a short bit of free fiction from Nature‘s Futures column.
Star Corps Crew Manual Section 15-A37: On Mental Dislocation
If your parallel-universe self seems to be planning some kind of invasion, remain calm…
Good advice.
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No Darkness Shall Endure
Posted in Holidays, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2022, Fiction, genre fiction, hope, inspiration, J.R.R. Tolkien, sff, Thoughts, Writers, writing on March 25, 2022| Leave a Comment »
On this day, eons ago, the brave Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee fulfilled their quest to destroy the One Ring in the fires of Mount Doom. And so it was decreed that March 25th would ever after be known as Tolkien Reading Day!
What does that mean?
Today is Tolkien Reading Day! – The Tolkien Society
And as an extra bonus, J.R.R. Tolkien’s Estate Releases Treasure Trove Of Drawings And Maps.
See those maps and more here: Maps – The Tolkien Estate.
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“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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Poetry & Perspectives
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2022, inspiration, news, poetry, Thoughts, Writers on March 23, 2022| Leave a Comment »
I spent too much of today in the news mines (and most of what I found is not great), so I thought I’d share a poem. It’s from 2016 but still relevant.
Click through and read from the beginning for best effect.
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by Brian Bilston
They have no need of our help
So do not tell me
These haggard faces could belong to you or me
Should life have dealt a different hand
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— Flipping the Message About Refugees, With a Poem – YES! Magazine
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