I’d love for you to join me at a new writers retreat and workshop in Albuquerque, New Mexico being organized by my friend and New Mexico author, Marie Parks. The curriculum is designed for science-fiction, fantasy, horror, and other speculative fiction writers at any stage of their career. I will be one of the on-site […]
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On Sunday, November 21st, I’m teaching a workshop called “Writing on the Fast Track” at the Hugo House in Seattle. I just heard that there are only five slots left in the workshop, so if you’ve been thinking about signing up, don’t wait too long. Here’s what the course catalog has to say about the
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I’ll be one of the workshop instructors at NASFIC this year. Here are the details from Oz Drummond, the organizer of the workshop. Please pass the word along…ReConStruction is only a few weeks away now. There will be a writing workshop at the NASFiC in Raleigh, known as ReConStruction. There will be two, actually. Allen
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Doug Lain is teaching a six week writers workshop through the Woodstock Community Center and Portland Parks and Recreation starting on July 1st. The course will be run on the Milford Model, but will also feature presentations on aspects of writing from various local writers, including me. The full lineup of guest speakers is: Jay Lake,
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I spent the day teaching puppetry up in Fremont at James Leitch Elementary. One of the interesting things about schools is that they all have different name structures for the teachers. In some I’m Mary, usually Miss Mary, and sometimes Mrs. Kowal. I always use the married version of the honorific when I’m filling out
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. . I’m heading up to Montreal for Anticipation, the 2009 WorldCon. Here is my convention schedule. Thursday Twitter, Facebook, My Space: Social Media and Writing 14:00, P-513B What’s all the buzz about the new social media? Writing short-short-short stories on Twitter??? Good grief! Is this networking or a new way to write? Can tweets
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One of the sites I enjoy reading because they talk about theory in intelligent ways is SF Novelists. Today’s post, by Marie Brennan, is about the concept of practicing as a writer. To me, writing feels kind of the same way. Sure, I can always revise; if I realize that thing my characters did last
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Goblin Art Studio is offering three-day maskmaking workshops this October. I met the instructor, Monica Roxburgh, when she interned with my puppet theater lo these many years ago. I remember looking at her mask portfolio and thinking she was overqualified for the internship because, dang, she was really good. I’m glad to see her teaching.
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It’s too late and complicated to explain why my hosts’ home has that moniker. Meanwhile, the workshop is over. It was good to see old friends and make new ones. I’m exhausted and it will take awhile for me to finish processing the weekend. At the moment, I am headed for slumber.
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I’m at the Historic Anchor Inn for the workshop and my room is fabulous. Seriously. It’s a two room suite with fun tiki themed decor. Now, as a special treat, see that link? There are two live webcams of the hotel. On the way down with Ken Scholes, Jen West and Alethea Kontis we stopped
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. . I’m in the airport in Cincinatti waiting for my connection to Portland. I’ll spend the day in town and then head down to Lincoln City for a writing workshop hosted by Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Their guest instructor is Sheila Williams. As you might imagine, I’m excited about this. Even
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Yesterday was the last official day of the workshop portion of the event. We critiqued three stories, including mine. I’m pretty relieved by my feedback and also realized that I have a pattern in the way I write stories. I tend to trust the reader and don’t like hitting people over the head with things,
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Today we critiqued four stories. By now, I’m getting a sense of whose critiques resonate with me most, which is good because– well, if I’m hearing advice that I think is spot-on to fix someone else’s story, if that same person tells me to fix something in mine, then chances are that they are right.
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We’re starting the mornings with breakfast foods laid out, but people on their own. Some crazy fools went jogging this morning. My feeling is that running is appropriate if something large is chasing you, otherwise not so much. We had three presentations today: One on brainstorming story ideas by Luc Reid ((I skipped this one
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The workshop officially starts tomorrow. Today, a friend of mine came in and helped me set up — wait. Let me back up. When I got in last night, I discovered that my parents had already done everything. Beds were made, conference tables were set up in the workshop room. I mean… really. So my
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