Also, who's submitted to Grist's Imagine 2200 climate fiction contest with me this year? 👀
The submissions call goes live on March 28. Is that enough time to start writing a wee tale that features "creative climate solutions and community-centered resilience" and shows "what can happen as solutions take root" in the generations to come?
You darned tootin' it is. 💪
Add it to the procrastination pile, at the very least! :)
My "To Write" pile is getting almost as long as my "To Read" pile 🤣
I think I might..
I was hoping you would!
I think I'm going to take a "mineral mining" futures approach: imagining the resistance movements needed a few decades out, to combat the next wave of extractionist economies already trying to replace petroleum through similarly brutal industry and government practices.
How about you? Any specific pathways to future action you'd like to explore? (And any specific geopolitical region you'd like to ground your story in? The committees always prefer a "lived in" tale.)
Me.
I am going to expand my short, short on synthetic biology.
The new worldwide, environmental restoration crew. Told from the point of view of the young granddaughter of one of the pioneers. Sort of of coming of age, and a confrontation of her privilege.
https://world.hey.com/corlin/endless-forms-most-beautiful-120231a5
Oh, that sounds like rich territory.
I love that it's going to imagine new problems in a future that's already fixed others. Very realistic. I look forward to your progress on this one!
@MLClark go for it. I'm not going to, For Reasons.
@MLClark
Tempting. If I didn't have two other calls I am procrastinating over....