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For Those With Excellent Taste

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , , on February 5, 2026| 1 Comment »

“There is a time for any fledgling artist where one’s taste exceeds one’s abilities. The only way to get through this period is to make things anyway.” ― Gabrielle Zevin

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Taking a Broader View

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , , on February 3, 2026| 2 Comments »

We admire people at their peak, we don’t get to see the distance they’ve traveled. — Adam Grant

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Everything You Need to Know

Posted in Other, Writing, tagged , , , , , , on January 30, 2026| 1 Comment »

“All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step.”

― Paulo Coelho

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For Muscles and Minds

Posted in Other, Writing, tagged , , , , , on January 21, 2026| Leave a Comment »

“Growth starts where comfort ends.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Useful Tools

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , , , on January 20, 2026| Leave a Comment »

The world is a distracting place. If you’ve been having trouble finding the time and energy to focus on your writing, this free class from award-winning author Mary Robinette Kowal might be useful.

Free Class: Barriers to Writing

Hey there… have you been having a hard time writing? Yeah. There’s a lot of that going around right now.

This class looks at what keeps people from writing. It’s less about problems with the story and more about all the external things. It covers environmental factors, mental health, and tricks for compensating for all of this to write.

Thanks, Mary!

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This Moment in Time

Posted in Holidays, Writing, tagged , , , , , , on January 19, 2026| Leave a Comment »

The power of science fiction, fantasy, and related genres including “the speculative” lies in its ability to create new ways to talk about old and ongoing problems in our societies. We are surrounded by people who wonder what they are going to do with the moment in time they inhabit—time-travelers fixed to this one instant in a long continuum of human struggle—and we are crafting new vocabularies of comfort, courage, and creative energy for them and for ourselves.

— The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the power of building new worlds

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What She Said

Posted in Other, tagged , , , , , , on January 18, 2026| 3 Comments »

“We’re only here for a short time. So why not go for it?”

— Belle Burden

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Have A Good Day!

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , on January 8, 2026| 2 Comments »

It’s a good day when I can promote a friend’s fiction, and today is a good day!

Here’s the latest flash fiction from the always terrific Arthur H. Manners in the excellent Nature: Futures (if you can’t see the full text, the easiest way to get access is to log in with a Google account):

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It’s funny because it’s (going to be) true;)

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Artist, Be Brave

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , on January 6, 2026| Leave a Comment »

You don’t have to be miserable or suffer to create art; but you do have to be honest, and honesty is terrifying.

— Elizabeth Bear

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Lessons from the Past

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , , on December 27, 2025| Leave a Comment »

“That’s what literature is. It’s the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!”

— Connie Willis

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