(Tomorrow, though, is BookTube day: new and hopefully markedly improved content, with one reading for the public and others for my Patrons ahead of public promotion. So at least I'm ahead *somewhere* in this process!)

Started the day with some editing projects - one paid, one volunteer for SFWA, where I'm on pubs crew and edit some of the blog pieces.

I love editing other people's work, because I have a strong eye for what others are aiming for, & what needs to be done technically to harmonize form & intention.

But when it's my own work? Ugh. Everything takes a million times longer. It's not about "murdering my darlings"; it's about accepting that the editing is *finished*, and letting go. 🙃 Back to it now!

Today's feature article at #OnlySky, by Seráh Blain, offers a glimpse into humanitarian and mutual aid work in Haiti. I'm not sure if it's exactly in the profile of #CoSoGoodNews #CSGN, but I was certainly heartened to read about on-the-ground efforts for change.

#Humanism

https://onlysky.media/sblain/state-of-haiti-in-the-chaos-grassroots-humanism-stabilizing-communities/

I've been doing so much work on the final novel proofs this week. Almost ready to let them go, and definitely looking forward to the new work I'll be able to do after I've sent them out, but this is it - this is the best thing I think I've written - so I just want everything to be as sharp as possible.

Whatever labours of love you've got on the go (and yes, I am counting your morning coffees: what kind of a monster would I be otherwise?) may they all nourish you well.

Morning, CoSo. 💫

"How should we like it were stars to burn
With a passion for us we could not return?
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me."

#CoSoNature

I'm at a restless, pacing hour in my day's writing & editing, and the latest mountain fire isn't helping. Might go for a wee walk before the next stint. (Class cancelled at 5:30, so more writing time for me!)

Morning, CoSo! 💫

Who's got two thumbs, and a terrifically bleak article for #OnlySky today, involving the IPCC's latest climate report and the limits on government will-to-change that make even this clear call to more comprehensive environmental action a near-impossible but still essential struggle for us all?

Why yes, it's a-me!

(What a world, eh?)

#Humanism #ClimateCrisis
https://onlysky.media/mclark/the-worlds-still-burning-ipccs-climate-report-and-action-plan/

Okay. Newsletter time.

This is the first and most personal of the essays and BookTube episodes I'll be sharing around the launch of Children of Doro, my space opera inspired by The Brothers Karamazov, on May 4.

Deep, heavy topics here - drawing in part from a really tough childhood for mental health, with plenty of long term consequences.

You've been warned!

#Newsletter #SFF #IndiePublishing #Indie #WritersOfCoSo #BetterWorldsTheory
https://mlclark.substack.com/p/death-life-and-the-framing-power

Morning beautiful people. Here are some animal friends I made this weekend. Whatever happens this week, remember that there's a world beyond all human drama, calling to us if we need a break.

#CoSoNature

(I also just enjoy the reminder that there are many cultures in which men weep in mainstream media! Openly! Goofily! And have silly, sentimental passions! While still being considered very professional in other contexts! What a difference from Western films and TV series, where men are definitely allowed to be emotional - so long as there are weapons or some other form of combat, competition, or hardship concurrently involved. 🙃)

Divorce Attorney Shin isn't the kind of show I usually watch, but man, I love how many different cultural conversations coexist globally.

In some ways South Korea's treatment of women is more traditionally sexist, & in other ways there's a more mature delicacy around key adult themes.

Meanwhile here in Colombia, there's a famous telenovela, routinely rebroadcast, where the Virgin Mary helps suffering people with... a very different approach to domestic strife.

Takes all types to make a world.

Pluto appreciation post.

#JustBecause