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Nov 292011
May 152012
Jody Lynn Nye will once again be offering a two-day science fiction and fantasy writers workshop at DragonCon, over Labor Day weekend in Atlanta, GA.
Among the subjects to be covered during the two-day course (Thursday 8/30/12 and Friday 8/31/12) are story structure, character development, world-building, narrative hook, research, description, collaboration, nonfiction, format, the business of writing, marketing and promotion.
Guest lecturers will speak during the course on topics involving their expertise. Signed up to instruct this year are Todd McCaffrey (co-author, Dragonriders of Pern), David Gerrold (“The Trouble with Tribbles,” The Martian Child), and Toni Weisskopf (Publisher, Baen books).
The students are encouraged to ask questions after the experts’ presentations. The aim of this workshop is to help aspiring writers to learn to practice their craft at a professional level.
Students of every level are welcome, from beginners to those writers who are starting to sell their work.
For more information and to sign up, please visit the description on the DragonCon website, http://www.dragoncon.org/workshops.php#WritersNye.
May 072012
The marvelous people at Mysterious Galaxy in Redondo Beach, CA, have decided to hold a special book launch event at their store 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 26th 2012 for Sky Dragons.
So, if you're in the neighborhood, please drop on by!
May 072012
Jody Lynn Nye flew out to join me in a weekend Save the Cat! workshop the 28-29th of April.
It was a challenging and inspirational weekend ably led by Jessica Brody. If you're interested in learning a great technique for outlining, then consider attending the next Novel-writing Beat Sheet Workshop June 9-10 2012 in Los Angeles.
May 072012
Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca Moesta gave a great talk on writing at The Writers of the Future workshop in which they tossed out jokingly how they could never get stories for their Purple Unicorn anthology (which, of course, doesn't exist).
Challenge accepted.
The next day I emailed Kevin a copy of Rhubarb and Beets, a short story I'd written in those 24 hours dealing with — you guessed it — purple unicorns.
Real joy came when I realized that the story might possibly be a fit for an anthology I'd been asked to write for. Lo and behold, it was accepted. More details to come.
