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Happy Book Birthday, David Hankins!

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , on January 28, 2025| 2 Comments »

It’s release day for friend and fellow Writer of the Future David Hankins, who has published the second book in his fun, funny and well-written Grimsworld series. The series started off with the award-winning Death and the Taxman, and keeps rolling with book two, Death and the Dragon. He’s also got a new collection of related stories out called Grimsworld Tales.

Maybe you were part of David’s Kickstarters, in which case you already know what I’m talking about. If not, I highly recommend you pick up these books.

Want to get a taste for David’s writing? Check out sample chapters at your online bookseller of choice or read this free multi-award winning* story at DreamForge.

To Catch a Foo Fighter by David Hankins

To catch a foo fighter, you need three things: tech, speed, and bait. I’m the bait.

Hehe. Recommended!

* David wins lots of awards because he’s just that good. He’s also a great guy, even if he does have a thing for rubber duckies.

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Today, It’s Baking

Posted in Other, Writing, tagged , , , on January 25, 2025| Leave a Comment »

I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.

—Marc Chagall

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Have Fun Writing

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , , , on January 24, 2025| Leave a Comment »

“We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.”

— Rudyard Kipling

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To a Future of Promise and Ingenuity

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 23, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Perhaps you remember me mentioning the submission call for this year’s Grist climate collection. Folks submitted (1200 of them!), editors did their editing thing, and now we have a brand new collection of free climate stories for 2025!

Here’s the full collection, including twelve new stories with the goal of looking “beyond the current moment to picture what could be.”

Imagine 2200 climate fiction contest: The 2025 collection – Grist

Welcome to the 2025 Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors collection. For four years, this contest has celebrated stories that invite us to imagine the future we want — futures in which climate solutions flourish and we all thrive. These stories have never pretended the path will be easy — some of the most compelling Imagine stories showcase the struggle as well as the successes — but they all offer the promise that through the transformative power of radical imagining, we can envision a better world and work toward making it our reality.

Yes, please!

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Art Is Inevitable

Posted in Other, Science!, tagged , , , , , , on January 22, 2025| Leave a Comment »

A NASA astronaut may have just taken the best photo from space—ever

Check out the article for the specific photo, but this is from the same series:

Image Credit: NASA, Donald Pettit

For more of Astro Don’s imagery, see his photos at the Portraits of a Planet exhibit, his book Spaceborne, or find him on social media.

“Art is an inevitable consequence of being human – even in space.”

— Donald R. Pettit

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Be That Spark

Posted in Other, Writing, tagged , , , on January 19, 2025| Leave a Comment »

“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.”

— Albert Schweitzer

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If We So Choose

Posted in Other, Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on January 17, 2025| Leave a Comment »

My mother sent me an article about Octavia Butler, one of a number I’ve seen recently in the wake of the LA fires. Butler was an award-winning sci-fi and fantasy author know for her all-too-realistic versions of the future. Although she died in 2006, a week of devastating fires in LA fit right in with her vision of 2025.

In fact, she was once asked how she was able to predict the problems of the future as accurately as she did, and her answer is a telling lesson for writers but also for people who want to make a difference.

“A Few Rules for Predicting the Future” by Octavia E. Butler – Seven Good Things

“I didn’t make up the problems,” I pointed out. “All I did was look around at the problems we’re neglecting now and give them about 30 years to grow into full-fledged disasters.”

Ouch.

But that’s not all Butler said. I recommend you read the essay in full. It’s not long, but it packs a punch.

“Okay,” the young man challenged. “So what’s the answer?”

“There isn’t one,” I told him.

“No answer? You mean we’re just doomed?” He smiled as though he thought this might be a joke.

“No,” I said. “I mean there’s no single answer that will solve all of our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers, at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.”

I so choose, and I hope you do, too.

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Real Heart

Posted in Other, Writing, tagged , , , , on January 12, 2025| Leave a Comment »

“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”

― Clive Barker, Abarat

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What Do You See?

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , on January 3, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Good advice to artists of all kinds, as quoted in this article on “Les Archives de la Planète” in 77 Stunning Color Photos Of The World’s Cultures A Century Ago:

“I ask only one thing of you,” Kahn said… “It is that you keep your eyes wide open.”

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Follow Your Own Tune

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , on January 2, 2025| Leave a Comment »

“Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it’s up to you to know with which ear you’ll listen.”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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