Daily writing – What can happen in a second?
Character Situation Exercise
Elmore Leonard’s “Ten Rules of Writing”
Advice from Stephen King
SpaceX and StarLink and numbers, Oh my! (Part 1)
Force Multipliers – Studying things that make a difference
Finding my Theme, again. Part 4 – Upsetting tradition
Reading Time: 3 minutes The status quo, the traditional, the institutionalized, the norm. All those things are often there not because they are good, efficient, or effective but because they are familiar, tried, and tested.
The progress of video game graphics
Finding my Theme, again. Part 3 – find your tribe
Reading Time: 4 minutes Never in history has there been a better time for finding or creating your tribe.
Finding my Theme, again. Part 2
Finding my Theme, again. – Technology and Society
Your theme will take the form of a rant that begins with any of these four sentences. For as long as I can remember I've felt there is something exciting at the intersection of _______ and _______ I deeply believe that the world needs _______ Never in history has...
A teenage girl climbing a rock cliff with a man below her
Author's note: Following the Neil Gaiman Master Class series, he offers the following exercise. Take one of the simple settings below and write a page about it, trying to undermine the reader’s expectations. For example, you’re writing about a man at a party who is...
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I'm trying to be healthier (within reason), and recently tried following some recommended (by reputable folks) workout-nutrition Instagrammers and, well... yikes. Ranges from food conspiracies to grade-school meme-myths and snake out. It's a free for all of dangerous information. https://twitter.com/donie/status/1445135105945657348
Up next on @CNNSitRoom: new details on how Instagram’s own algorithms promote accounts glorifying eating disorders.
Daily writing - What can happen in a second? - https://jamesrtyrrell.com/2021/10/04/daily-writing-what-can-happen-in-a-second/A lot of things can happen in a second, you can fall in love, you can make a life-changing decision, step into the path of a vehicle.
This is a huge deal but people don't really notice
NASA's recent announcement about purchasing new spacesuits did not get a whole lot of attention, but it's kind of a big deal.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/10/after-years-of-futility-nasa-turns-to-private-sector-for-spacesuit-help/
My dog Mango ran away and I’m fuckin distraught. I don’t really know but like five ppl on here but if anybody c this dog in the humboldt park, Logan SQ, Ukrainian village area please hit me up. That’s my best friend fr
3So @straczynski makes a great statement and suddenly a load of fans this morning turn into toxic gatekeepers. Really looking forward to seeing how B5 can be done now, should be amazing!
