Obligatory Readings of the Day: Jennifer Ouelette and Chris Clarke explain everything you need to know.
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Jennifer Ouelette and Julianne Dalcanton chat about space, physics and science education:
I've been practicing little idiosyncratic rituals on this corner of the web for years: learn something new, obsessively research, get lost in the idea, scribble, converse endlessly, then write.
While I was out, John Scalzi had an interesting post about the changing economics of short story writing. Back in the day, Robert Heinlein made a living selling stories at a penny a word: