It’s not my fault if you also read the second sentence

The Wreck of the Edmund Pevensie is the name of a sapient spaceship in my story "A Champion of Nigh-Space" and novel The Knife and the Serpent :)

Eddie to his friend, and Rex Edmunds when he's incognito in an android body

YES

"Mr. Fiddlehead" by Jonathan Carroll is wonderful too, as is "Friend's Best Man"

"The Professor's Teddy Bear" by Theodore Sturgeon is an all-time great, and I love Ray Vukcevich's "Whisper"

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It’s cool now they have chatbots to write their books for them and I’m sure a deep sense of personal satisfaction and self worth will follow

Yep. I could see a world where I stopped publishing but not where I stopped writing. (I’d revise a lot less.) I wrote steadily for 15 years before I published a word

I practiced my ass off too, of course; my talent is of the “I liked doing something enough that I did it constantly and eventually got good at it” variety is all

For me, all the revising, editing, copyedits, proofreading, etc are the bits I don’t like (compared to drafting anyway). I do like having books on the shelves and people telling me I’m great and getting money tho so I do it

There’s a bit from one of the Spenser novels (I’m quoting loosely) where he turns down a job because he wouldn’t like doing it. Guy says “Don’t you ever do anything you don’t like?” He says “I might do something I don’t like if it let me do something I REALLY like later.” I get that

I admire that! I’m fundamentally lazy and pleasure driven

I do know “I love having written” writers and can theoretically comprehend “do something that makes you miserable in exchange for a major payoff later” but uh I’m essentially a lazy hedonist

What happened to our babies Mike

There’s half and half in there also to cut back the sweetness a smidge

I was permitted to post photos to Bluesky because “none of my friends use that”