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What’s This?

Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2022, authors, creativity, Fiction, genre fiction, inspiration, interviews, Murderbot, sff, SFWA, Thoughts, Writers, writing on April 21, 2022| Leave a Comment »

What’s this, what’s this? I have just discovered that the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America has a video interview series with interesting authors like Ann Leckie, Ken Liu, Karen Lord and more. It’s called Narrative Worlds and is hosted by author Kate Elliott.

I now know this because I follow Martha Wells (Murderbot and much more), and she is heading for the interview chair this Sunday the 24th.

Busy on Sunday? Me too, probably, but good news, SFWA archives the series.

Here’s Season 1 and Season 2.

Have I listened to these yet? I just discovered they existed five minutes ago so no, I have not. The list of authors is impressive, however, and I expect good things.

Also Murderbot.

If you’re into science fiction and fantasy and are curious about what’s goes on in a writer’s head, check out this series.

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Wait and See!

Posted in Holidays, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2022, children's books, favorite books, inspiration, Thoughts, Writers, writing on April 17, 2022| Leave a Comment »

One day a little country girl bunny with a brown skin
and a little cotton-ball of a tail said, “Some day I shall
grow up to be the Easter Bunny: you wait and see!”
Then all of the big white bunnies who lived in fine houses,
and the Jack Rabbits with long legs who can run fast,
laughed at the little Cottontail and told her to go
back to the country and eat a carrot.
But she said, “Wait and see!”
— Du Bose Heyward, Majorie Flack (ill.), The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes 1939

When it comes to life’s challenges, may you (like my favorite Easter bunny) be “wise, and kind, and swift.”

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Mirror and Inspiration

Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2022, creativity, Fiction, future, genre fiction, history, humanity, inspiration, sff, The Expanse, Thoughts, writing on April 14, 2022| Leave a Comment »

This interesting article discusses space exploration as an extension of the frontier mentality, how humanity’s complications underly a lot of science fiction, and asks, “Are the stars better off without us?”

Expanding Horizons | Atmos

A few years ago, in an attempt to lose myself in something other than winter lethargy, I became enthralled with The Expanse, a space drama that asks: what if humanity became a multiplanetary species? What would happen next?
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“So much of the show is about resources and scarcity and the connection between economics and history”
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It’s easy to write off The Expanse as “just” science fiction, but the ideas that the show wrestles with are important. Science fiction both holds a mirror to culture and acts as a source of inspiration.

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Who Says You Can’t?

Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2022, inspiration, quotes, Thoughts, work on April 12, 2022| Leave a Comment »

“Talent counts in my book—but effort counts twice.”
― Angela Duckworth

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Very Good Dragons

Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2022, Clarkesworld, creativity, Fiction, free fiction, genre fiction, inspiration, Naomi Kritzer, sff, Writers, writing on April 11, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Fun free fiction for folks. Because Monday. And because you can’t have enough dragons.

The Dragon Project by Naomi Kritzer : Clarkesworld Magazine

“We’ve now created dragons for you twice, you’ve had the opportunity to inspect our work at every step of the way, and both times you’ve refused to take delivery. Timothy is a very good dragon, and you don’t deserve him anyway. You’re fired.”

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Dancing Cow Day!

Posted in Holidays, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2022, happiness, inspiration, Spring, Thoughts, yay on April 10, 2022| Leave a Comment »

I saw my first flower buds yesterday, in a planter filled with lovely little purple crocus plants. We still have a tiny bit of snow in the yard and my mother reports snow down south, but even so it’s starting to feel like spring.

It’s good timing, too. Today is Økodag, or Dancing Cow Day in Denmark, when the country’s 200,000 organic cows leave their winter barns and head out to greener pastures. This year is extra special as the event has been on hold for the past two years.

Danes revel in ‘dancing cow day’ for first time since Covid outbreak

“The cows are so happy to be outdoors, to feel the sun and the wind, that they dance,” she said. “Out in the field, a cow can also go for her favourite dishes – grass, clover, various herbs etc.”

Happy spring!

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On The New Climate Change Report

Posted in Science!, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2022, climate change, inspiration, ruh-ro, Thoughts on April 6, 2022| 2 Comments »

“Honestly, if you’re given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don’t say ‘what kind of tea?’”
― Neil Gaiman

Wise advice.

Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change

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*Photo by Aniketh Kanukurthi on Unsplash*

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Happy 109th

Posted in Likes, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2022, family, home, inspiration, memory, Thoughts on April 5, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Today would have been The Whippersnapper‘s 109th birthday. I was hoping to post another photo of her but my father, keeper of the family album, is out of town.

For now just let me say to my grandmother, dancer, baker, tea maker and all-around excellent human being:

I miss you, but I love that you were here.

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Shine On, You Crazy Star, You

Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2022, inspiration, space, Thoughts, yay on April 2, 2022| Leave a Comment »

This may seem late to some of my more southerly readers, but today is the first time it feels like spring. The sun is out, the sky is blue, and I went out for a walk with Mr. Man and didn’t have to shovel. (Sure, there’s still snow on the ground, but I saw my first motorcycle of the year, kids are running around in shorts, and robins are all over the yard.

It’s a good day!

The Sun did all that and more. Let’s go for a little visit, shall we?

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