Current way of thinking about the work

Read somewhere that a big difference between musical acts that succeed and those that flourish are the former view their work as an art, the latter as a craft. Working on viewing the writing as a craft. Scenes require meaning, not just import. They’ve got to do something, not just inspire feelings.

Table stakes in this game isn’t finishing the book. It’s writing a book deliberately, with intention. That’s a heavy lift.

Salmon Glacier, AK

I went up to Salmon Glacier. That is the hardest fantasy-style geography I’ve seen in the US. It was hard to walk around and NOT see ents, dwarves, and elven outposts.

Banff is as cool as they say it is.

Weird Traffic

Calgary has a lot of stoplights wherein it seems no one has a green. All lights I can see are red, both pedestrian lights visible show don’t-walk signs, and no one was moving through the intersection. This happens a lot.

Round Earth

If you want a simple means of telling the Earth is round, go north in the northern hemisphere’s summer. The Sun will set later. That’s because the Earth is round, and the north bits point toward or away from the Sun, based on season. If the Earth was flat, sunrise and sunset would be the same time, regardless of latitude.

Undergraduates

Most people are smarter than they think they are, but the world is harder than they think it is.

Porsche

If you go to Porsche’s configurator, they really hide the fact that the base, S, and style editions of the Cayman 718 have 4 cylinder engines. They don’t mention it on the specs page, and you’ve got to go digging to find it.

They’re embarassed.