I read all my manuscripts out loud. It’s not just spelling errors or missing words that I’m looking for. It’s things like this. Cassie looked ahead, expecting to see the Queen’s Court, but the road through the forest still wove through the trees. No kidding. Really? The forest had trees in it? Wow. Maybe I […]
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Michael Capobianco finishes his last day as SFWA’s president today by announcing that his pet project, the Nebula Awards website is open for beta testing. I only have a half-hour or so to go as President, and, as my last official act, I’d like to make the official announcement that the Nebula Awards website, nebulaawards.com,
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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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The Nebula Awards Website is launching soon. (And it is gorgeous.) The website will function as a repository for information about the Nebulas and a showcase for the Weekends. Our target audiences are writers of both SFWA and non-SFWA memberships, readers, and of course, bookstores and librarians. Among the regular features are interviews with Nebula
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The show that used the moose head ended today and Rob handled the process of picking the props up from the theater for me. He just sent me this email about moving the moose. It’s in our hall now but we had to walk it up the stairs. Comically, we managed to coax it into
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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Pretend that I came online and told you about all the wonderful things we are doing in Chattanooga.
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My husband, wrote an article about New York city winery in Decanter magazine. This autumn a new winery will open its doors among the luxury shops, avant-garde theatres and loft residences of New York’s SoHo City Winery is New York’s first ‘private label winery’ where members can vinify their own barrel of wine, managing its
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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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My nephew upon learning that I am working on a novel called, “Good Housekeeping,” insisted that I had stolen his idea. To prove it, he posted his story by the same name. A teaser: to keep a good house you need to write it, then publish it before you meanie face jr aunt cant steal
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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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19:33 In the Charlotte airport on the way to Chattanooga. The flight was easy and I got the Giant Battle Scene written. One chapter left. # 19:41 Mental note: Next time, when packing lunch for the plane, don’t forget to pack a napkin as well. I have Wasabi Mayo on my face. # 20:46 And
I’ve arrived at Woodthrush Woods and had a good time catching up with my parents. Just in case there were any doubts about the success of this workshop? Mom has made a poundcake.
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I just logged on to update my blog and then saw that Kermit Love died last night. From the NY Times obituary: Although Mr. Love collaborated with luminaries of dance like George Balanchine, Agnes de Mille, Robert Joffrey, Jerome Robbins and Twyla Tharp, it was the 8-foot-2, yellow-feathered Big Bird and his 7-foot, woolly mammoth-like
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The flight from La Guardia was completely without incident. We sat on the runway for a while, but I just read one of the stories I’m supposed to critique for the workshop. What? Would you really have finished them all before you got there? I didn’t think so. Plus! I finished the Giant Battle scene
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