Thursday on Earth

https://write.as/cjfryer/thursday-on-earth

#amwriting

Thursday on Earth

https://write.as/cjfryer/thursday-on-earth

There's a bunch of non-fiction on this theme

- If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal (Justin Gregg)
- Other Minds (Peter Godfrey-Smith)
- The Sea Inside (Philip Hoare)
- Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? (Frans de Waal)
- An Immense World (Ed Yong)

But where is the #fiction?

Forgot the hashtags. Buddies, pls see above:

#amwriting #writing #fiction #writingcommunity #nature #animals

Hello friends. I'm looking for fiction with the theme: "nature complains that humans suck"

I have a couple:

- Die Konferenz der Tiere (Erich Kestner, possibly influenced by Attar of Nishapur's Conference of the Birds)
- The Great Silence (Ted Chiang, almost certainly influenced by Silent Spring)

There's a body of work where aliens complain that humans suck, e.g. Chocky and countless others, and myriad titles where "humans complain that humans suck".

But I'm after category 1. Please help!

@MicroSFF Bill and Ted FTW.

https://youtu.be/gn6BDeKn-qc

Looking at a map, I'm struck by the fact that a great portion of the globe came...

https://write.as/cjfryer/looking-at-a-map-im-struck-by-the-fact-that-a-great-portion-of-the-globe-came

I imagine a conversation with the hectoring high priest of atheism, Richard...

https://write.as/cjfryer/i-imagine-a-conversation-with-the-hectoring-high-priest-of-atheism-richard

CATS is still pulling in crowds, I see 😆

Bonfire leaf-smoke scented sentinel:
Watch for coming snow.

Feet will crush that patchwork frosty stitch
As they come and go.

Looking up I see a spinnaker
Masted to the moon.

They've sailed this way just to be with us
Don't judge them too soon.

#VerseThursday #Poem

It came! It came! #Cosmism

@knguyenwrites There's a hilarious puzzle/stealth game where everyone is just trying to get on with their day, while you are an annoying goose.
https://goose.game/

Hark, an #introduction! I'm a fiction writer of the usual #specfic genres, but with the bonus that I tend to blend many of them in any given story, often whimsically. My stories also trend toward the literary with heavy #folklore and #fairytale influences.
I have two #selfpublished #novels and five #novellas available on a variety of marketplaces including #Patreon, as well as many freely available short stories and poems here, on the fast-dying twitter, and my own website.
To sum up, greetings.

@kreig Denis Villeneuve is a fabulous director. The way he handled Ted Chiang's "Story of Your Life" to make "Arrival" was enchanting. Eric Heisserer's screenplay was deserving of its Oscar nomination.

@TimHoelscherX @Gargron has posted some statistics. Remarkable, really.

And here's the obligatory self-promo post. My blog updates weekly on Sundays. Last week was my birthday, so I went to a football game.

https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/its-my-birthday-too-yeah/

@gg allow me to present the single worst photograph of the moon ever taken since... the invention of photography. #moon #awooo

@3goodthings

@amy Do you mean simple language choices like changing "master" to "main" and "slave" to "replica"? Or more radical stuff? Do you find your whole approach to the structure of your software changing? (Sorry if this is weird; I'm genuinely interested in how our language changes our work).

@amy Hi Amy. Welcome! That's an intriguing combination! Do you find your writing is informed by your software development expertise, or (even weirder) vice versa?