“Be curious about what you’re writing about” is not stock Common Writing Advice but it really, really should be. There are a lot of written works that fail due to the authors just being obviously incurious about what they are writing about.
Scientists shouldn’t have to pretend they’re bringing back the dire wolf. Geneticists should be able to say “I want to make wolves larger for no reason”, and we should have the resources to say “that sounds cool as hell. Here’s a billion dollars”
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