Sure, for all practical purposes it can be, but unlike a penalty like a speeding ticket, you can get your money back if you show up.

KF has a fedi site?

Grim and heartbreaking. Good book though.

Meanwhile, some dolphins in the Atlantic had a very boring Saturday night.

The America they were forced to come to was vastly different from the one we live in today. How would that be better than where they already lived? How would someone benefit from being ripped from their family and support system and dropped in an undeveloped country to do forced labor?

(Jizz)Fountainhead

Write something at first; maybe use one of your partial ideas and really concentrate on making something small, but good. Now, put that away somewhere out of the way, but still accessible.

Now, write something else entirely. Maybe another small project. Keep going. Write more. Do a little writing each day, and in between, read stuff written for different audiences. Read MLK's "Letters from a Birmingham Jail." Read some sci-fi. Read a comic book. Read a boring, dry report about something. Absorb, then write again.

Now, after a month or so, maybe two, pull out the first thing you wrote. It will give you a good gauge of the progress you've made. And you might hate what you wrote, and that's OK, as long as you realize that the first thing you wrote is the floor, and you're only going to get better from that point on. Finally, plan! Sometimes creative genius can come out of the ether, but it's best to plan and not rely on that happening. Give yourself a destination and rough idea of how you'll get there. Then let the wind take you.

Best of luck, and enjoy!

Fair enough!

Severance vibes

More than childish, it's pathetic.

It was a great finale, and a great season. It’s going to be a tough and long wait for Season 2, given the writer’s strike.

I wonder if the other siloes are basically dead, and their particular silo is the only one still operating (mostly) normally. I also wonder what city is in the background at the end. Can’t wait !

well, I love The Expanse, but I applaud you for posting an actual unpopular opinion!