Bob Morrell

A short story is never so good as it is when it pops into to your head

#Writing with #cats

New Episode! Author Interview: Nostalgic Futures, by Max Dosser, with Christine from Hugo History. @klaxoncomms.com hugospodcast.com/podcast/auth...

Margaret Hamilton has died at 90. A software pioneer who saved the Apollo moon landing more than we'll ever know. She invented the term "software engineering." #NASA #Apollo

After a big acceptance email, we are regressing to the mean with three rejections in two days. #writing

Success! For two weeks I have been sweating after sending in requested revisions to Emily Hockaday at Asimov's. She accepted them today! With this, the majority of my sales are in this millennium, which makes me a modern writer. #writing

There are few things more gratifying than typing and centering END at the end of a first draft. #writing

Our neighborhood hawk after gobbling up a baby snake in our yard

If you don't play the NYT Connections game, today would NOT be a good day to start. #NYTconnections

For #gingercatappreciationday I give you a bonus Squeaky, Dusty and Onyx

Also from the trip home a double sun dog off the coast of Iceland

Iceberg spotted off the coast of Greenland on my way home

Why do the wrong people keep dying?? 😭😭😭 #Dolly 💙

One thing they don’t warn you about old age is being defeated by modern medical packaging.

The art of fiction is making untrue things sound believable, whereas non-fiction is about making the truth sound unbelievable. #writing

Most representative photo from my #Scotland jaunt

The most moving memorial in London “They had no choice.” #dogs #horses

Irony defined

In my 70+ years I cannot remember meeting someone who appeared more comfortable in their own skin than @scalzi.com #congregate12

Squeaky break! #cats

Anger over today's Wordle may finally top "homer". #wordle Wordle 1,852 5/6* ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Maybe I'm not overthinking, maybe I'm just regular thinking about stuff that’s overhappening

You are truly retired when you ask what day of the week it is.

New episode! We discuss the new magazine SMALL PLANET (about SF translation), and two great movies: La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962) and Resurrection (Bi Gan, 2025). 101sf.blogspot.com/2026/07/lost...

Dusty is finally calming down a bit. #cats

After a long dry spell, at last an acceptance! It does not make up for all the rejections, but it makes them bearable. #writing

Well said. Fuck AI.

A 15” screen is more than 2”better than a 13”. Why did I wait so long? #air

Squeaky break! #cats

New vaccine study. Fever, headache, sore arm. All those times I got the placebo look good in retrospect.

60% of my grammar checker’s corrections invoke the addition or removal of commas. Occasionally it will suggest adding one then immediately suggest I take it out. Glad to know I’m not the only one. #writing

Wow. Peter Neumann, has died. He edited RISKS digest, the very first internet interest group I ever got into, and still receive decades later. #RISKS

squeaky and onyx #caturday #cats

Three days. Three rejection emails. Ugh. #writing

My grand cat #cats

🐱 🖨️ #justforlaughs #funny #meme #cats #IT

Nothing attracts #cats like an open window. The smells!

The book by JD Walker that I helped edit "BASE 37" got a big endorsement from an unexpected source. shereads.com/the-monthly-...

@tkingfisher.com, I finished Nine Goblins. This was as much as I have enjoyed fantasy since Terry Pratchett died. Delightful!

#Locus time! Rare signed books, other swag available. (I got the tee shirt!) gmail.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?...

Onyx pauses from grooming the kitten. #cats

Just a helpful reminder to everyone: Wednesday is April 1st. If you see a news story or something that looks like a news story that makes you think "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME??!??" ...the answer is probably yes, yes they are, that's it exactly.

People who believe #AI can write #ScienceFiction need to remember Sturgeon’s law: “95% of science fiction is crap,” which means 95% of what AI is trained on is stuff no one wants to read any more.

“If you look at the 1868 Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust, which invested in emerging markets, all of them are still emerging markets, except America, which is the only one they didn’t invest in.” -Russell Napier

All four #cats relax away from the visiting granddog

An interesting post from an editor who almost published an AI story. I don't often get a peek at the state of AI #writing, as editors don't like to talk about their detection methods. It's getting closer... dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/no-story-t...

My grandcats #cats

Autobiography of an escapee (barely) from the law of averages. #bookreview www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

A new book I helped edit has come out. It has quite a lot about my late brother. Worth reading. #BASEjumping a.co/d/06IG0pt6