Liz Argall

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  • Poetry and Physics

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    At Wiscon I had Indian food with great people. Because of this I was challenged in a way I have never been challenged before. I don’t know how many times I tried to write a poem about The Tick that night. I know I mumbled spoon, city, thick layery chocolate cake of justice. Trying to…

  • Do you want to survive your next con?

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    Five things authors and artists put in their bags of holding. You can find out what’s in my bag, as well as the bags of Elizabeth Bear, Kyle Cassidy, Wes Chu, Eugene Myers, Scott Lynch, Lynne M. Thomas, LaShawn M. Wanak, Chuck Wendig, and A.C. Wise. What nice company!

  • But enough about me

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    Did you know the Canberra Speculative Fiction Writers Guild (spec fic writers of MY hometown) are writing a book in a day to raise monies for Paediatrics at the Canberra Hospital? I love the audacity and intense collaboration of this project, go check it out! Best wishes to all the mad creators diving in, may the…

  • Last day to vote for THINGS

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    Last day to vote for Things mini-comic content, what will the Things be?

  • My words on the SFWA website & Things mini-comic

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    One my blog posts has been reproduced over on the Science Fiction Writers of America website, Jelousing Is the New Writing Exercise. Meanwhile, over on the Things website, you to vote for which comics will go into the first print version of Things Without Arms and Without Legs. Please help me decide and let me…

  • Nothing to Prove

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    Oh wow, I love this song. When I saw it on Scalzi’s blog I expected it to be a fun affirming song to start my day with. I didn’t anticipate crying for the whole song while smiling. I didn’t realize how much I needed to hear this. Proving yourself can just become second nature. There…

  • Launch Pad Video Blog burbling summary

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    Hello! The internet took away my blog post (aka my own absent mindedness and failure to press that pesky save button) and so I did a video blog to capture a fragment of was nifty and cool. Edit: I love the conversations in SCIENCE. The shininess of the exoplanets app led me to believe I…

  • Day 2 at Launch Pad, part one. All kinds of light and a little angular momentum

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    We went out for breakfast as a group at the Turtle Rock Cafe. Food was well flavored and sustaining. The long walks across campus in the sun and variable cafeteria food reminded me of my Clarion experience in San Diego. The Electromagnetic Spectrum, Telescopes and Instruments

  • Reviews news

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    The AV Club has nice things to say about my story in This Is How You Die. “Liz Argall’s “Blunt Force Trauma Delivered By Spouse,” a graphic, painful character study of an Australian farmer in a passionate but abusive relationship, fighting to rebuild her life in spite of her eponymous prediction.” Read the full review

  • Monday, day one of Launch Pad

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    I’m at Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop. It’s a good thing that helps writers use better astronomy in their science fiction. Monday – these are notes, there may be errors or misunderstandings. Astronomy Pre-test. I know I didn’t do very well. I was a little embarrassed, truth be told! We won’t find out our result until…