Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, Hugo Awards, inspiration, sff, speculative fiction, Writers, writing on August 24, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Who won Hugo Awards at this’s year’s Worldcon in Seattle? So glad you asked.
Here’s the final list!
2025 Hugo Awards – The Winners | Pixelated Geek
All nominees are included, with winners in bold. Congratulations to awardees, and to everyone on the roster!
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, free fiction, speculative fiction, Writers, writing on August 23, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Today, a little free fiction from Jo Jones, who writes speculative fiction and loves reading, history, writing and Star Wars. A woman after my own heart!
STDD CASE FILE RUS1896JM – by Jo Jones
“This is not the first time we have met Miss Michaels. But….. we are getting ahead of ourselves. Or maybe behind?” He shakes his head. “Even I can’t keep up! Anyway, where are you thinking of this time?”
Enjoy!
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, creativity, language, Thoughts, Writers, writing on August 22, 2025| Leave a Comment »
What are the most beautiful words in the English language? Here is one person’s list:
The 100 Most Beautiful Words in the English Language – Dr. Robert Beard
Not so sure about “moeity” but I like the first one:
Ailurophile A cat-lover.
* Thanks to Messy Nessy for spotlighting this!
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Posted in Other, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, creativity, Thoughts, Writers on August 21, 2025| Leave a Comment »
“Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living within that way of life.”
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Posted in Other, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, exercise, Thoughts, Writers on August 13, 2025| Leave a Comment »
We all know we should be exercising more, especially those of us whose work requires a lot of computer time. (Hello, fellow writers!)
This is a pretty fun way of thinking about it, though.
How exercise may be the ‘most potent medical intervention ever known’ | PBS News
One of the things I regularly tell my patients — I’m a cardiologist — is that one minute of exercise buys you five minutes of extra life, which means you definitely have time to exercise, because, even if you exercise even a little bit higher intensity, you get seven or eight minutes of extra life.
So you definitely have time to make in your day to exercise. — Euan Ashley, professor of cardiovascular medicine and genetics at Stanford University
It’s like compound interest but for health. Invest a little, get a lot.
I’ll remind myself of this the next time I’m tempted to sleep in instead of work out:)
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, free fiction, Writers, writing on August 7, 2025| 1 Comment »
Howdy Readers! Today I’m happy to share a bit of fun free fiction from that master of humorous sci-fi David Hankins!
The Devil’s Footlocker by David Hankins – FREE STORY – Amazing Stories
Phil could sell anything to anyone. New Milwaukee, like most habitats orbiting Earth, was a moldering dump that smelled like rancid grease wrapped in locker room funk, but that was precisely why Phil had come. Suckers living in squalor made easy marks. The locals couldn’t get enough of his micro-transmat-powered Dust Zappers.
Enjoy!
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, creativity, Thoughts, Writers, writing on August 6, 2025| Leave a Comment »
“People overestimate what they can accomplish in a year but dramatically underestimate what they can do in a decade.”
— Maya Andrews, Olympic gold medalist
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Posted in Science!, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, inspiration, ISS, NASA, science, space, technology, Thoughts, Writers on August 4, 2025| Leave a Comment »
I have a folder of interesting articles, quotes, and ideas. When the cicadas are buzzing and the temperature is too hot to think of anything particularly timely, I search that folder for stories that might interest you.
Today, this treasure trove of ideas wants you to know about a critical space station issue: water.
When you’re on a camping trip, you might have to pack your own food and maybe something to filter or treat water that you find. But imagine your campsite is in space, where there’s no water, and packing jugs of water would take up room when every inch of cargo space counts. That’s a key challenge engineers faced when designing the International Space Station.
Real life Dune! Ok, not really, but kind of! And this is exactly the sort of technology that can benefit the Earth-bound among us too.
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, art, crafts, creativity, Thoughts, Writers, writing on August 3, 2025| Leave a Comment »
“You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.”
— Alexander the Great
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Posted in Science!, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, Writers, writing, WritingResearch on July 30, 2025| Leave a Comment »
A random guide that may or may not be related to the last scene I wrote: A Naturalist’s Guide to the World’s Most Lethal Plants
Not every threat in nature has fangs. Some sit quietly, rooted in soil, dressed in flowers, laced with poison.
And since we’re on the topic, what about the (mostly but not entirely historical) trend of poison gardens, and how are they related to the history of medicine?
Welcome To The Poison Garden: Medicine’s Medieval Roots
Visitors to the Poison Garden are allowed to look but not touch, says head gardener Trevor Jones. “They’re not allowed to stand too close to the plants. They’re not allowed to smell them or touch them or taste any of them, because they do all have the ability to kill you.”
In this as in so many other cases, knowledge is power!
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J.R. Johnson 
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