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Just Waiting

Posted in Other, tagged , , , , , on January 12, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Bright sun, blue skies, and the sense of a storm looming just below the horizon. I’m working, watching and waiting, and maybe this latest unpredictable system will blow past us without much fuss. Or maybe, like many of you, we’ll find ourselves in the middle of an Arctic blast buried beneath many centimeters of snow. 

While we wait to see how this latest example of Nature’s power manifests, here’s another dose of free fiction.

Download the Tor.com November/December 2023 Short Fiction Bundle

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Free to Read, This Week Only!

Posted in Entertainment, Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , on January 11, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Good news, fellow seekers of good fiction, my fellow Writer of the Future David Hankins has made his award-winning story “Death and the Taxman” available free for this week only! If you haven’t already read it in Writers of the Future Volume 39, I highly recommend it.

Read Death and the Taxman

The story is funny, well-written, and the springboard for his upcoming novel (I supported the highly-successful Kickstarter; the book will be widely released on Tax Day because David’s sense of timing is as on point as his humor!). 

Enjoy!

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Want to Read

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , , on January 9, 2024| Leave a Comment »

An ode to the stories I want to read but haven’t quite managed, yet.

The Coffin Maker – Uncanny Magazine

Every so often, audio crackles through the room, too loud, and the crowd stills and quiets as one. Stephani knows that they are all like her, waiting, waiting, waiting to find out how this mission will fail, hoping it will be a small thing with no ripples, praying they won’t have to hear it, knowing they will listen if a surveyor’s last words are broadcast across the ship. 

Have I read this? I have not, but Uncanny stories are always high quality and often hopeful (if sometimes disturbing; fair warning in case this story turns out to be one of those!). Perhaps you will have more time today than I do.

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Your Very Best

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , , on January 7, 2024| Leave a Comment »

“Always do your very best. Even when no one else is looking, you always are. Don’t disappoint yourself.”

— Colin Powell

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What Comes Next?

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , , , on January 6, 2024| 1 Comment »

As I’ve mentioned here before, I don’t really do New Year’s resolutions. That said, I am not immune to the “fresh start effect,” which can make it easier to begin new projects, habits, or other goals around a new week, month, or year. 

So today I’m considering what new projects, habits and goals I want to bring with me into 2024.

And whether you’re the sort of person who makes resolutions or not, this article may help with next steps.

How to keep your New Year’s resolutions according to a behavioral economist (Planet Money podcast, with transcript)

It’s the first full week of 2022, and many of us are already feeling the “fresh start effect,” according to behavioral economist Katy Milkman. We’re excited to pursue new goals and we feel a renewed sense of purpose that new beginnings can bring. Still, keeping New Year’s resolutions is often easier said than done.

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Just Living

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

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”

— Joan Didion

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When It’s Ok to Quit

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , on January 3, 2024| Leave a Comment »

For the days when I look down at the book I’m reading and think, “No research is worth this.” 

“If a book is tedious to you, don’t read it; that book was not written for you.”

—Jorge Luis Borges

I’m also a firm believer in this:

“I don’t believe in guilty pleasures… If you like something, like it.”

— Dave Grohl

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And It’s a New Year

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , on January 1, 2024| Leave a Comment »

 “Action is the foundational key to all success.”

— Pablo Picasso

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Visions of the Future

Posted in Science!, Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , on December 31, 2023| Leave a Comment »

For me, the end of a year is a great time to think about the future. 

What did one of science fiction’s most acclaimed writers think about the future back in 1980, what’s changed, and which of his predictions have already come to pass?

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Random Bit of Fun

Posted in Entertainment, tagged , , , on December 30, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Robert J. Sawyer, Canadian author extraordinaire, has a wide variety of abilities and interests. He also, apparently, liked to watch the Six Million Dollar Man. 

Specifications for The Six Million Dollar Man

There doesn’t seem to be an accurate version of the specifications for cyborg Steve Austin’s bionic parts anywhere online, so I have put one together.

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