Impostor Syndrome and Sci-Fi Show more
A recent Ann Leckie blog post reminded me of that time I discovered C. J. Cherryh because of short stories I was writing in HS and how impostor syndrome lead me to write a dumb apology email to C. J. Cherryh, but I got a great response back.
That also got me thinking that it still amazes me, and makes me happy that one of the other writers I "published" back then in HS is a proper published author now.
I still feel every bit the impostor today, but I've got stories.
Smeap is the honk of a flamingo. Smeap was also at least once, a storybook land at the weird intersection of TV ads and the worlds they seem to inhabit. It was a place where wars were fought over sodas, and talking polar bears had very good reasons to guard soda machines. It was a place where rainbow color candies were harvested for electric power. It was a place where a prairie dog might move to big city inhabited mostly by Pink Flamingos to follow her dream to be private investigator, only to get slowly entangled in the seedy underbelly of crime and prohibited soda trading of the Neon Flamingos and their syndicate. Social media at times lately feels like it has become almost entirely seedy underbelly with very little upside. Maybe it needs more storybook worlds.