Author: Liz
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Writers Bootcamp – for all funky fiction writers (including folks who want to write comics)
This is for everyone who wants to develop their writing, but it’s especially for folks who want to write comics. Please pass it on. Clarion Writers Workshop was a fantastic experience and really exciting for me. I write across many genres (from ‘literary’ to horror to spec fic) and I write across a range of…
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World Fantasy Con 09
Hello all. Life has been a bit crazy the past few months. I’ve just finished a whole bunch of educational comics work, comics about staying out of jail, community sector careers and drugs (mostly alcohol and cigarettes). I’ve just come back from World Fantasy Con, which was magnificent. Cat Sparks captured many fine moments at…
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Book Overview, Creating Short Fiction by Damon Knight
I am trying to write more book summaries, overviews of non-fiction I read. To help me engage more deeply with the text as I go over it so I can write about it and help me remember who said what should I need to refer back to things. Hopefully it will be a useful resource…
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Recently Read Books
Because reading is important (and delicious). One of my favorite things to learn, that I learn every workshop, festival and convention, is that reading is important. “Writers must read!” People proclaim and every time they do I get a delicious shiver. Really? I can indulge in my addiction? I am trying to strategically target my…
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Clarion 2010
The instructors for Clarion and Clarion West have been announced. Clarion will have the pleasure of: Delia Sherman George R.R. Martin Dale Bailey Samuel (Chip) R. Delany Jeff VanderMeer Ann VanderMeer Jeff and Ann VanderMeer will be the bring it home team for the last two weeks. I’ve just finished reading Delany’s essay on Clarion,…
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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…
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At Clarion, in the USA and loving it
Life has been an amazing and frantic. Since last I wrote I’ve reached the United States unpacked in a big rush in Portland (turning a rather nice basement into a cosy home) and then zoomed down to San Diego. I’m in the third week of Clarion Writer’s Workshop, the bees knees of creative development. I’m…