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The 2022 Hugo Awards

Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2022, Fiction, genre fiction, Hugo Awards, inspiration, Thoughts, Writers, writing on September 5, 2022| Leave a Comment »

The winners of the 2022 Hugo Awards have been announced!

The Hugo Awards

Best Novel – A Desolation Called Peace, by Arkady Martine (Tor)
Best Novella – A Psalm for the Wild-Built, by Becky Chambers (Tordotcom)
Best Novelette – “Bots of the Lost Ark”, by Suzanne Palmer (Clarkesworld, Jun 2021)
Best Short Story – “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather”, by Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny Magazine, Mar/Apr 2021)

Click through the links above for free access to the winning novelette and short story, or visit the awards page for the full list of awardees.

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Because It’s Hard

Posted in Science!, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2022, Artemis, inspiration, NASA, space exploration on August 29, 2022| Leave a Comment »

This morning at 8:33 a.m. EDT (12:33 GMT), NASA’s Artemis rocket is set to launch for the moon.

Watch NASA’s Artemis 1 moon launch online today | Space

The space agency will host Artemis 1 launch webcast on Aug. 29 to showcase the uncrewed launch on NASA’s first Space Launch System megarocket from Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

As of this writing, live updates have begun. Weather forecasts are good but there is an engine issue. Engineers are working the problem but some delays are expected.

The fact that humanity has been going into space, and to the moon, for decades doesn’t mean it’s easy. And that’s ok.

“I don’t need easy. I just need possible.”
— Katie Bone, 16-year old nationally-ranked athlete and Type 1 diabetic

Follow launch live updates or watch it on NASA’s livestream now.

Update: Today’s launch has been scrubbed. More later!

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The Trick

Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2022, creativity, inspiration, Thoughts, Writers, writing on August 27, 2022| Leave a Comment »

“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
― Ray Bradbury

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Can’t Chat, Reading

Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2022, creativity, genre fiction, Ilona Andrews, inspiration, Writers, writing on August 24, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Sorry, can’t chat right now, I’m too busy reading the new Ilona Andrews book, Ruby Fever.

While I do feel a bit bad that it will only take me a day to read what took months to write, I’m going to inhale the book anyway. Back soon!

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Something Silly

Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2022, creativity, inspiration, Thoughts, Writers, writing on August 19, 2022| 1 Comment »

Put Something In

Draw a crazy picture,
Write a nutty poem,
Sing a mumble-grumble song,
Whistle through your comb.
Do a loony-goony dance
‘Cross the kitchen floor,
Put something silly in the world
That ain’t been there before.
— Shel Silverstein

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The Vacation Continues

Posted in Likes, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2022, inspiration, Thoughts on August 17, 2022| Leave a Comment »

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Good Goals

Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2022, inspiration, quotes, Thoughts, Writers on August 14, 2022| Leave a Comment »

“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Taking A Little Time

Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2022, creativity, Fiction, inspiration, Thoughts on August 8, 2022| Leave a Comment »

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
― Charlaine Harris

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Open the Sky

Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2022, Fiction, inspiration, quotes, Thoughts, Writers on August 6, 2022| Leave a Comment »

“We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”
― Walter Mosley, Blue Light

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