A bunch of cool things I’ve found and bothered to save the links for now listed here for your clicking pleasure and for me to find later when I’m like “What was that thing again?”
Writing:
Writers on the pain of hindsight in publishing
In search of a more nuanced discussion on women and gender in SFF
Chuck Wendig – Welcome to the midpoint of your novel
Delilah S. Dawson – 25 Hacks from a Hack Writer – This was a particularly good post IMO
Halsted M. Bernard: Critiques, Counts, and Quests: Motivational Tools for Writers
Ryan Macklin – How Destiny Made Me Rethink Setting Details
Kameron Hurley – I was never in this for the parties
2016 Tools For Writers – a color-changing word count spreadsheet, submission tree, goals, career bingo. Super handy and easy to modify to your own needs
Recipes:
Swedish Cinnamon Star Bread – holy cow look how pretty this is and not hard!
Sima – a Finnish fermented lemonade-ish drink
Science:
Tardigrades have DNA from outside sources – omg neat
Cancer cells can’t proliferate and invade at the same time
Where do Seattle area crows go at night
New fingerprint powders can show fingerprints on ivory for up to a month
Pollution cleaning water-walking robot
What outer space does to your body
Plague is still alive and well in the American West
Stories:
The first Best of 2015 Short Stories lists I ound – I know I am using this to see what good stuff I have missed and need to make my own list soon. Please send me your lists if and when you make them.
Feels:
1998 profile of Mr. Rogers – Fair Warning this will punch you in the feels.
Chewbacca comic – Also a feels punch. Also spoilers for Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Misc:
NYC Library uploaded 20o,000 public domain images
Traffic Camera Catches Snowy Owl in Flight
Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards
NASA posts huge library of free-to-use space sounds. !!!!!
MINERVA ZIMMERMAN 