Well, I did it again: led the Seven-Sentence Short Story workshop (created by science fiction and fantasy author James van Pelt) at a writing conference, this time, Wordbridge in Lethbridge, Alberta. Here’s the story I …
It’s time for this year’s Kickstarter to fund Shapers of Worlds Volume V, the fifth in the series of anthologies featuring science fiction and fantasy by authors who were guests on my Aurora Award-winning podcast, The …
It takes money to publish books, and most of that money flows out the door before the book is released and sales begin, so my publishing company, Shadowpaw Press, is turning to Crowdfundr to help …
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My publishing company, Shadowpaw Press, has three great titles coming out in the first two months of 2024, all of them science fiction or fantasy. The first two, The Good Soldier by Nir Yaniv and …
Here’s another seven-sentence short story! I ran the workshop again at Ganbatte, an anime convention in Saskatoon. It went well, and here’s the one I created, again with the instructions, created by noted SF short-story …
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Writing Diary: July 28 & 29
Not very productive, these last two days. Tuesday I got very little done because I had one of those eye exams where they dilate your pupils–which meant, I discovered, while I could read text on the 19-inch desktop computer monitor, I couldn’t read it on my laptop when I took it down to Second Cup to work and I couldn’t read the papers that have the source material for the Orson Scott Card biography.
Yesterday was a bit better; I worked on a short story at Second Cup and did some OSC work, although more in the way of composing additional questions and skimming some of the books I have by and about him than actual writing.
*Sigh.* Well, there’s always today…and the weekend…
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