Month: August 2009
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Conflux 6 Virtual Mini-Con
As I mentioned a very long time ago, I’m a guest panelist at the Conflux Virtual Mini-Con. Conflux is a wonderful Speculative Fiction Convention held in Canberra, Australia every year in October. I’ve had a wonderful time every time, with top notch panels, interesting workshops and lovely people. The panel will be starting in a…
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Because it is hard (and because spaces are important)
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we…
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Clarion reading list
Updated 5 September – as I go through my notes and find more recommendations. One of the many joys of Clarion was to get recommendations for good reads from wise teachers and co-clarionerds. This is an incomplete list, I forgot to jot down the list on the fridge and I’m sure there are ones mentioned…
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Clarion by the numbers
Clarion Writers Workshop is over for 2009. Wow. Going by the numbers: 6 stories critiqued, 5 stories written (my first story was on day 1 and was a submission story) One novel proposal, outline and first chapter written and critiqued 30 pounds of paper brought home containing those critiques Critiquing many many stories, I want…