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Making a LEGO Village (Practical World-Building)
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“Practical Utopias” is a problem-solving enterprise
- Practical world-building: What to eat? What to wear? What houses will we live in?
- “Did you know you can make bricks out of mushrooms?
- “Would you like to have a mushroom coffin?”
- “Do you know you can 3D print houses out of compressed earth in two days?”
“Practical Utopias” is bringing all of these ideas together, with an aim for a cheap, scalable, green solution.
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How Are Poetry and Prose Different?
When Margaret started writing, it was open season for her
Nobody was there to tell her what to do; there were no writing schools. She wrote both poetry and prose
Novels are 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. Writing novels is work, you have to put in the hours
For poetry, it’...
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A Connoisseur of Dystopian Speculative Fiction
Hope is built on a very fundamental level
How to find hope in the face of the climate crisis?. The climate crisis is real, but we are inventing a lot of new things. We are looking at the problem, and coming up with answers. The 19th century was a century of utopias: “They wrote a lot of the...
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What Keeps Her Going?
Margaret Atwood is 82 years young. Is longevity determined by genetics? Margaret’s mom lived to 97.
Curiosity is a big factor; her parents were always curious. She is curious about new technologies. She is also a big fan of astrology, she reads palms and does horoscopes.
She got into ...
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Resisting “Closed Boxes”
Nature does not deal in closed boxes. Everything in nature is on a bell curve, some forms cannot be put into closed boxes (liminal beings) e.g. the platypus
We all contain multitudes; just because Margaret is a woman and a writer, it doesn’t mean that’s the end of the story.
People la...
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You don’t know when something may strike you and that’s why poets are so annoying to people who are not poets
MARGARET ATWOOD
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I always want to know what’s the upside, what’s the downside, cost-benefit, but also what are people using this for?
MARGARET ATWOOD
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What Makes Margaret Good at Speculative Fiction?
Margaret was always an avid reader and she read a lot as a teenager in the 50s. What you read as a teenager has the biggest influence when you start writing
She wanted to write something like 1984, but with women, It’s all about the people you are drawn to and the skills you have at the mom...
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Reading dystopian fiction, we know we’re capable of really awful things, we’re also capable of really pretty wonderful things. And we’re smart and inventive
MARGARET ATWOOD
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