I don’t know how I’ve missed this all these years. I know a lot of the terms–I’ve used them in workshops and more recently in all the work I’ve done with young writers–but I’ve never seen them all brought together in one place, even though this Workshop Lexicon, compiled by Bruce Sterling, has been around …
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Ain’t it the truth!
Seen at A Place for Strangers and Beggars, the blog of author James Van Pelt:
Ain’t it the truth!
Seen at A Place for Strangers and Beggars, the blog of author James Van Pelt:
Photo of the Day: Marseguro in hardcover!
Look what came in the mail today: a copy of the Science Fiction Book Club edition of Marseguro. It looks great in hardcover. (Also, as you can see, much, much bigger…) More photos here.
Photo of the Day: Marseguro in hardcover!
Look what came in the mail today: a copy of the Science Fiction Book Club edition of Marseguro. It looks great in hardcover. (Also, as you can see, much, much bigger…) More photos here.
Hope for the future
One more post about my time as writer-in-residence at Michael A. Riffel High School. I was thrilled, after I gave my usual presentation in an advanced placement English class, to be asked by a student, “So, which of the Big Three is your favorite?” And, yes, he meant Heinlein, Asimov, and Clarke, all of which …
Advice for young writers
I bid farewell to the hallowed halls of Michael A. Riffel High School yesterday as I wrapped up my writer-in-residency there with some final meetings with individual students. As I work with young writers more and more, I find that my writing advice, as far as technique goes, keeps boiling down to the same few …
Yes, I’m still alive…
…I just haven’t been blogging. Busy, busy busy busy, is why. And what have I primarily been busy with? Well, I’m currently the writer-in-residence at Michael A. Riffel High School here in Regina. This is a program sponsored by the Saskatchewan Writers Guild, and it’s been an interesting experience. I’ve primarily been doing classroom presentations–more …
"Grow up, SF people!" says Richard Morgan
SF writer Richard Morgan has a terrific post about the curious need within the SF&F community to denigrate those within the community who write or read stuff that we, ourselves, might not choose to write or read. Me, I’m pretty eclectic in my SF&F tastes, as both a writer and a reader, so I’m with …
The aforementioned chapbook
Further to yesterday’s post about the workshop and reading that wrapped up the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild’s Online Youth Mentorship program last night, here’s what the chapbook looked like (well, here’s what one chapbook looked like, one of the ones I assembled: every one was a bit different, depending on who made it). The image on …
Happy birthday to someone you never heard of, but really should know…
…painter and poet Josef Čapek, born on this date in 1887. Nope, I never heard of him either until today, but Scott Edelman explains why he matters: Because Josef was the older brother to Karel Čapek, the author of the 1921 play “R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots),” in which the term “robot” was introduced. And contrary …
R.I.P. Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke has died at age 90. He was the last surviving member of the “Big Three” of science fiction: Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein having gone on before. Those were names to conjur with when I was a kid, and they’re among the primary reasons I write SF today. I regret I …
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