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Better Selves

Posted in Other, tagged , , , on March 21, 2024| Leave a Comment »

“No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you’ve come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.”

— Madonna Ciccone

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Dream With Me

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , on March 18, 2024| Leave a Comment »

“Don’t listen to anyone who doesn’t know how to dream.”

— Liza Minnelli

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Photo by Marc Sendra Martorell on Unsplash

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Reading Clarkesworld

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , , on March 4, 2024| Leave a Comment »

The award-winning SFF magazine Clarkesworld recently released their Best Of 2023 list based on reader votes. While I don’t always love every Best Of story out there, I do like using those lists as starting points to explore new and interesting writers. 

If you do too, check out the top 3 short stories and longer-form works.

Editor’s Desk: The Best from 2023

Best Novelette/Novella
3rd Place: “Imagine: Purple-Haired Girl Shooting Down the Moon” by Angela Liu (novelette)
2nd Place: “Light Speed Is Not a Speed” by Andy Dudak (novelette)
2023 Winner: “To Sail Beyond the Botnet” by Suzanne Palmer (novella)

Best Short Story
3rd Place: “Window Boy” by Thomas Ha
2nd Place: “Day Ten Thousand” by Isabel J. Kim
2023 Winner: “Better Living Through Algorithms” by Naomi Kritzer

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You Win

Posted in Other, Writing, tagged , , , , , , , on February 23, 2024| Leave a Comment »

For anyone facing a challenge today, two quotes:

“…very often a risk is worth taking simply for the sake of taking it. There is something enlivening about expanding our self-definition, and a risk does exactly that. Selecting a challenge and meeting it creates a sense of self-empowerment that becomes the ground for further successful challenges.”

— Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way

“So do it. If you win, you win, and if you lose, you win.”

— Jake La Motta, Raging Bull

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Random Thought: What If Clouds Were Alive?

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , , on February 21, 2024| Leave a Comment »

“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”

― Terry Pratchett

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Just Saying

Posted in Entertainment, Writing, tagged , , , , , , 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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Thought I’d Share

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , 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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Even Tuesdays

Posted in Other, tagged , , , , 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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Natural Allies

Posted in Science!, tagged , , 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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Image by Alexey Hulsov from Pixabay

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Lunar New Year

Posted in Holidays, tagged , , , 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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D is for Dragon. Original photo by Christopher Ritter on Unsplash

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