https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200604-what-we-can-learn-from-untranslatable-illnesses
Things to keep in mind when worldbuilding.
What we can learn from ‘untranslatable’ illnesses – BBC Future
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This can teach us writers a thing or two
What rowing solo across the ocean teaches you about solitude
https://www.fastcompany.com/90494452/what-rowing-solo-across-the-ocean-can-teach-about-solitude
Read it. She has some good ideas on dealing with panic, stress, staying focused, and simply enjoying things.
Sounds like a good idea for public transportation on Oahu
Public transport will now be free in Luxembourg
But, of course, the only purpose for anything in the United States is to make more profits for the already-wealthy.
Something to keep in mind when creating new cultures
For us science fiction and fantasy writers.
Mary Astell called out ‘bad custom’ centuries ahead of her time
Advice to writers about love
Your stories are your children sent out into the world to stand or fall.
They need you to believe in them, to find them good homes, watch out for them and support them.
Love your stories. You owe it to them!
Advice to storytellers from me
Tell the story that needs to be told, in the way it needs to be told, to the length it needs to be told.
Don’t poison a story by insisting it must be an apple when it’s really an orange.
Don’t stunt a story by forcing it beyond its natural growth nor by forcing it to grow in a box too small.
“Genres” and “standard story lenghs” are publisher’s artefacts, not part of storytelling.
Breakthroughs don’t come through abiding by conventions and working in boxes.
The happy emotions are not necessarily what they appear | Aeon Ideas
Now to apply this the next time I have to come up with a happy ending.
Shooting drones out of the sky with Phasers – BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49984415
Ok, but I still want a pocket-sized one so I can help put an end to drones.
Found something that might help me!
Something to think about wealth and charity
“So-called charity, with its implicit assumptions of high and low, is no remedy to injustice, but its willing accomplice. Charity allows the privileged the opportunity to buy the silence of their consciences for a few coins (with the added bonus of much to-do being made of their philanthropy)–rather than wrestle with why, in a world of plenty, they wallow in pampered luxury through no particular virtue of their own, while most of the world is in rags, starving, and living in shacks. Jesus advised the rich man to sell everything he had and give it to the poor. The numerous charities operating under his name ever since have set a significantly lower standard.”
Peter Kropotkin, narrater in “The Watch” by Dennis Danvers
