Nov. 10, 1975 The tradition at Mariners' Church in Detroit is to ring a bell 29 times: To remember each of the 29 men who died on the Edmund Fitzgerald: 30th time: To honor all sailors lost on the Great Lakes: 31st time Added after the death of Gordon Lightfoot in 2023 to honor the songwriter.

It's Wednesday, my dudes.

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Suicide's last mission. Rescue her chosen son's actual mother. Suicide Solution - The conclusion of the Suicide Arc. tshottle.com/book/suicide...

I have a new novel out today, in case you need last minute costume ideas. Suicide Solution is the final novel of the Suicide Arc. I talk about it here on my substack. #bookskies #sciencefiction #writercommunity tshottle1.substack.com/p/tales-from...

Now get out there and kick evil's ass! #therightpeoplewillgetit

Every day, I find something about the history of the English language that confirms I speak a gang of seven languages that lurk in back alleys and mug other languages for new words. Learned today Flemish runs with that gang. See the silent "h" in "ghost." They did that. #langauge #writercommunity

Dilly dilly!

The implosion of my Facebook presence (which I believe was part of the AWS debacle) convinces me I should spend a lot more time here, on Substack, and YouTube. #facebooksucks

I'm pondering replacing Messenger with Signal. Should I live stream if some dumbass at the White House accidentally invites me to a classified war planning chat? #facebooksucks

Kicked off Facebook because Amazon's AWS sneezed. Mad that I'm rendered a non-entity on Facebook. Laughing because I work for an Amazon contractor, so my employer is making Zuck miserable. #schadenfreude

Here's something I've wondered about Star Trek. Are Starfleet officers required to record personal logs? It's established you need permission or a warrant to access them. What if someone doesn't want to keep a log or prefers to write a journal instead? #startrek

Hello, my baby. Hello, my honey...

I had a friend (not my first reader and biggest fan, but someone who's followed me for years now) ask if I was going to write something outside of my current universe. No. #amwriting #sciencefiction #writercommunity

#sciencefiction #writercommunity #compactuniverse #suicidearc tshottle1.substack.com/p/tales-from...

"Just as a good man forgets his deed the moment he has done it, a genuine writer forgets a work as soon as he has completed it and starts to think about the next one; if he thinks about his past work at all, he is more likely to remember its faults than its virtues." — W. H. Auden

@seanferrick.bsky.social Those were Commodore Perry Porters, or as I call them, breakfast beer. Either the sound was garbled and relooped as "Guiness." (No, no, no, no! I've had both. No.) or the prop department messed up. There. Now we just need Wil Wheaton to explain this on air.

This could actually work. And really? We could use a Doctor here right now.

The latest Tales from Hypergraphic Oceans... tshottle1.substack.com/p/tales-from...

Nuance is dead in the 21st Century. That's the root of everything else.

Novel crossed the 11,000-word mark this morning. #writercommunity #amwriting

I want @seanferrick.bsky.social 's TARDIS mug. My French press demands it. My inner Janeway craves it. (Yes, I have an inner Janeway. And an inner O'Brien. And unfortunately, an inner Boimler.)

Erica Ortegas finds her inner Mark Watney. #strangenewworlds

Three chapters down in the new novel. Taking advantage of this lull in employment to get a lot done. #writercommunity #amwriting

I just got the name of the planet in "Four and a Half Vulcans." I assume it lies near 4 Beta Yinzer and two hours from a Certain Ethnic Planet with a capital called New Parma. #strangenewworlds #startrek #therightpeoplewillgetit

Just put Chapter 1 of a new novel to bed. First in a long time. #writercommunity #sciencefiction #amwriting

Buy my books so I can move to Vancouver. (Or at least Ottawa.) I can go from being boycotted by Canada to boycotting Ohio. #sciencefiction #badmarketingmadeeasy tshottle.com/compactunive...

On today's TrekCulture, I half-expected @elittlechild.bsky.social to deal Black Jack.#scifi #trekculture

This must be said. @seanferrick.bsky.social does a better American accent than half the actors I see on television. (And yes, I'm aware American actors need to work on their UK and Irish accents.)

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I reflect on the moon landing. open.substack.com/pub/tshottle...

www.tshottleediting.com/why-do-the-r... #writercommunity

I'd pay good money to see this. #sciencefiction #doctorwho #billandted

Me pontificating on the voices in my head. #writercommunity #sciencefiction #authorskies tshottle1.substack.com/p/when-chara...

Falstaff is the Fonzie of Shakespearean canon. #thereisaidit #shakespeare

This week I talk about fragments. www.tshottleediting.com/fragments/ #writercomunity #editing

He always struck me as a Boo Berry kinda guy.

In this Editor's Corner, we get a BANG! out of writing. But not an interrobang. Yonder lies madness. www.tshottleediting.com/bang/

In one week, a long-neglected character gets her time in the spotlight. Davra's Endeavour. #sciencefiction #bookskies tshottle.com/book/davras-...

I'm building a wiki (Actually I built one before) for my science fiction series. Badly formatted and organized right now, but it's a work in progress. Will start the Suicide Arc soon. #bookskies #writercommunity #sciencefiction #stupidwritertricks

#sciencefiction #bookskies #writercommunity tshottle1.substack.com/p/on-writing

How to fix "Turnabout Intruder": Janice Lester shows up on Strange New Worlds and tells Lester she washed out of Starfleet because she's batty AF. I nominate La'an or Una. (Or Chapel.) #startrek

An episode of Legacy needs to have a guest slot for Wil Wheaton so someone can say to Wesley, "So rude. You weren't like that before the beard." #startrek

Whoever came up with this bill should be deported to North Korea just for the good of the country. act.commoncause.org/petitions/te...