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Outlook is Good

Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, creativity, poets, Thoughts, Writers on July 12, 2024| Leave a Comment »

“I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.”

— Emily Dickinson

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*Photo by Guilherme Stecanella on Unsplash*

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Adventure, with Trolls!

Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, activism, adventure, art, creativity, inspiration, magic made real, nature, sculpture on July 11, 2024| Leave a Comment »

This is just all kinds of delightful:

Giant Trolls in Detroit Lakes Bring the Public on a Fairy Tale Adventure

The Danish artist has continued to expand his work in America and has just completed his most ambitious project ever with Alexa’s Elixir. Located in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, the exhibition takes people on a journey to solve a riddle and find a Golden Rabbit.

Sculptor, recycling artist and activist Thomas Dambo makes giant trolls and shares them with the rest of us. And when they say “giant,” they mean it!

If you happen to be in the Detroit Lakes area of Minnesota, this looks like a lot of fun.

WHERE ARE MY TROLLS ? LOST 9 SCULPTURES IN MINNESOTA! – YouTube

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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 »

“If you’re only going to accept winning as the condition for your participation, you play a very small game.”

— Michael Bungay Stanier

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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.”