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What are you obsessed about? Part 2. ❤️

podcast highlight: and another one of my obsessions!

This week's How To Write The Future podcast episode:

Ep. 141: Favorite Science Explainers on YouTube (Part 2)

https://writersfunzone.com/blog/2025/02/24/favorite-science-explainers-on-youtube-part-2/

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Friday, Feb. 28, 2025

Hi Friend,

From a young age I believed in impossible things: writing a novel, traveling and living overseas, creating change in the world around me. To name a few.

These things feel impossible as a child.

Yet the stories I read told tales of people doing impossible things.

So an obsession of mine is reaching for the impossible one small step at time.

Like making a movie, really a very short film!!!! See more here.

(Dreams do come true! I'm on my 16th novel; lived abroad 3 times; and get to create change 1 fiction writer and fiction reader at a time!)

What is your impossible dream that you are working on one tiny step at a time?

Do tell!

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And now, for some inspiring quotes to support your impossible, fabulous journey.

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”

-- Attributed to Nelson Mandela

“You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

“I keep on making what I can’t do yet in order to learn to be able to do it.”

-- Vincent van Gogh

Thank you to Kathryn & Ross Petras for sharing these quotes in her book, "It Always Seems Impossible Until It's Done": Motivation for Dreamers & Doers.

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On to the weekly podcast...

Favorite Science Explainers on YouTube (Part 1) Ep. 140 How to Write The Future podcast with Beth Barany

Favorite Science Explainers on YouTube (Part 2)

Science Explainer: “ That is a term that has come out in the last bit of years to explain someone or to describe somebody who shares about science to the general public.”

In this How To Write the Future podcast episode, I'm sharing more of my “Favorite Science Explainers on YouTube (Part 2)” and the types of science they share including orbital mechanics and exploring the unexpected.

To listen or read this episode's transcript, go here (Writer's Fun Zone):

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The How To Write The Future podcast is for science fiction and fantasy writers who want to write positive futures and successfully bring those stories out into the marketplace.

Enjoy!

Next in Ep. 142, I'm sharing an overview of eight potential topics for future episodes for you to vote on.

Stay tuned on How To Write The Future podcast.

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