{"id":44767,"date":"2025-09-03T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=44767"},"modified":"2025-08-28T11:17:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T18:17:51","slug":"whats-in-my-now-danielle-krage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/whats-in-my-now-danielle-krage\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in my NOW? \u2014 Danielle Krage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Danielle Krage&nbsp;<\/strong>is a writer and creator of&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/questful.world\/\">Questful World<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2025\/08\/danielle-k-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2025\/08\/danielle-k-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2025\/08\/danielle-k-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2025\/08\/danielle-k-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2025\/08\/danielle-k.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4><strong>PHYSICAL<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve just completed Ray Bradbury&#8217;s 1000 Nights challenge\u2014to read a poem, a short story and an essay a night for 1000 nights (2.7 years). I&#8217;ll include one physical item from each of these categories. Ones that delighted me, and I hope you might enjoy too. (Prior to this I read fiction, but hadn&#8217;t touched poetry or short stories since school!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Poetry collection that I found accessible and dynamic:&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/n8AG\">Machete by Tom\u00e1s Q. Mor\u00edn<\/a><\/strong><\/li><li>Essay collection that made me laugh and cry:&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/psQI\">The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green<\/a><\/strong><\/li><li>Short story collection that was both fun and philosophical:&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/iiwyo\">Sum:Forty Tales from the Afterlives, by David Eagleman<\/a><\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4><strong>DIGITAL<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>This is the&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/_W-r7ABrMYU?si=rv3i7M3Kg88NR1O1\">Ray Bradbury talk<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;that sparked it all off. (I also took his advice to write a short story a week for a year.) I love his zest and gusto!https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/_W-r7ABrMYU?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0<\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/poem-of-the-day\">This site sends you a poem a day<\/a><\/strong>. (I still chose to read collections of poets I was interested in, but it&#8217;s a super easy way to get started if you want to explore more poetry.)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4><strong>INVISIBLE<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m now hooked on doing extended creative Quests, and will be starting a new one shortly. My mantra has become:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Make it hard enough to matter\u2014and fun enough to finish.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsinmynow.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Sign up here<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0to get\u00a0What\u2019s in my NOW?\u00a0a week early in your inbox.<\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8ec17518-5a1f-4d72-bb4c-90894919687f_600x600.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>issue #222<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2303],"tags":[2389],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44769,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44767\/revisions\/44769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}