Posted in Entertainment, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, #BlackAsSFF, genre fiction, inspiration, Thoughts, Writers on February 16, 2024| Leave a Comment »
I just finished the third book in N.K. Jemisin’s The Broken Earth trilogy and have to agree with this article:
Dear Hollywood, Where Are the SFF Book-to-Movie-TV Adaptations From Black Writers?
Since 2014, approximately 500 books of all genres have been adapted to film or television. In total, just over four dozen of those books adapted were written by Black authors. Only four of those 50+ Black adaptations were speculative works.
Just saying.
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, inspiration, Thoughts, Writers, writing on February 15, 2024| Leave a Comment »
I just posted this to a writer’s group and then thought, what the heck, maybe other people would appreciate this too. And here we are.
I saw a writer on Twitter feeling not great about his work, of the “everything’s terrible, no one wants this stupid book, what’s the point, why am I even bothering?” variety. Been there, of course, who hasn’t, and I had some thoughts. Sharing in case someone else needs to hear it too:
Think of the last book you read that brought you joy, or showed you that there is light at the end of darkness.
Your book is you, repaying the favor.
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Posted in Holidays, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, Thoughts on February 14, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, inspiration, Thoughts, Writers on February 13, 2024| Leave a Comment »
You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.
— Paulo Coelho
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Posted in Food and..., tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, #distraction, cookies, food, Thoughts, work on February 12, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Wanted: recipes for cookies that go well with afternoon tea. Because how am I supposed to work when all I can think of are cookies?
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Posted in Science!, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, inspiration on February 11, 2024| Leave a Comment »
This is absolutely the sort of article I like to have with lunch:
Study finds bigfoot sightings correlate with black bear populations | Ars Technica
The results suggest that there’s a strong correlation between sightings and the local black bear population—for every 1,000 bears, the frequency of Bigfoot sightings goes up by about 4 percent.
So another way of interpreting this study is that (and correct me if I’m wrong here but really, it just makes sense) black bears and Bigfoot have formed an alliance.
Pretty sure they meet every third Thursday and swap tips on the best berry patches and how to avoid detection by overly-enthusiastic humans.
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Posted in Holidays, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, genre fiction, inspiration on February 10, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Happy Year of the Dragon!
2024 is China’s Year of the Dragon
The first day of the Chinese New Year falls on February 10 this year. Also known as the Spring Festival or Lunar New Year, the festival marking the advent of spring is widely celebrated in China and several East Asian countries…
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, authors, genre fiction, sff, Thoughts, weird lists on February 9, 2024| Leave a Comment »
I decided to make a list of science fiction and fantasy authors based on my reading history, organized by the starting letter of their last name. (That’s normal, right?)
This is off the top of my head and while I read a lot my memory isn’t the best. I have certainly forgotten many authors, and of course there are many more that I have not yet read. And I haven’t put everyone in here, but focused on the ones engraved into my longer-term memory banks. (As such, it tends toward the classics.) Even so, I was surprised to find that most letters have at least some entries.
Most, but not for Q, U, and X.
Here’s my list in progress. Who am I missing?
A is for Asimov, Atwood, Adams, Abercrombie, Andrews, Addison, Anders, Anthony
B is for Butler, Bradbury, Bujold, Banks, Bacigalupi, Bester, Butcher, Burroughs, Baum, Bull, Beukes, Bradley
C is for Crowley, Chiang, Card, Crichton, Arthur C. Clarke, Cronin, Chambers, Corey, Susanna Clarke, Carroll, Cooper, Cherryh
D is for Delany, Dick
E is for El-Mohtar
F is for Farmer, Farland, Feist, Fforde, Flint, Foster
G is for Grant, Gibson, Gladstone, Gaiman, Gabaldon, Green, Goldman
H is for Harrison, Herbert, Huxley, Heinlein, Haldeman, Hamilton, Hobb, Hopkinson
I is for Ishiguro
J is for Jemisin, Jordan, Diana Wynne Jones
K is for King, Kowal, Kingfisher, Kay, Kurtz
L is for Leckie, Lem, Ken Liu, Le Guin, Lewis, Lem, Lunch, Cixin Liu, L’Engle, Lowry, Lord, Leiber
M is for McCarthy, Miller Jr, Muir, Martine, Miéville, Martine, McGuire, McCaffrey, Matheson, Moorcock, Milne, Macdonald, McKinley
N is for Niven, Novik, Norton
O is for Okorafor, Orwell
P is for Pournelle, Pratchett, Pullman
Q is for …
R is for Robinson, Rothfuss, Rowling
S is for Scalzi, Shelley, Stephenson, Simmons, Sagan, Stross, Samatar, Sanderson, Sawyer
T is for Tolkien, Tchaikovsky, Tiptree Jr., Tepper
U is for …
V is for Vonnegut, Verne, VanderMeer, Vinge
W is for Weir, HG Wells, Martha Wells, Willis, Whitehead, Walton, Williams, TH White, Wilhelm
X is for …
Y is for Yolen, Yu
Z is for Zelazny
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Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, chilling, Thoughts on February 8, 2024| Leave a Comment »
I know it’s only Thursday but I am so ready for the weekend. Just let me dream for a minute, ok?
. . .
Thanks:)
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Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, Thoughts on February 7, 2024| 2 Comments »
… but that’s ok.
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.
— Edward Everett Hale
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J.R. Johnson 
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