We’re halfway through the semester, so I took time today to check in with my fiction writing students, see what’s working and not working, course-correct as needed. One thing I asked them about was an experiment I ran the first week, something I’ve never done in a creative writing class before. I gave them my […]
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Pleased to note that I’ll be teaching for a week at the 2023 Speculative Fiction Novel Bookcamp this August 13-19 at the Siena Retreat Center in Racine, Wisconsin. More details below: ***** 2023 Speculative Fiction Novel Bookcamp Staff Announcement NEWS RELEASE Novel Bookcamp Dave Rank, director director@novelbookcamp http://www.novelbookcamp.org Award-winning Staff Named for 2023 Bookcamp RACINE,
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Whew. I’ve had something like six hours of tech troubleshooting in the last two days, and I was so frustrated at one point that I actually got teary. I’m going to spare you all the saga — the SHORT VERSION of it is that my laptop’s display is deader than dead. It’s still under warranty,
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Had a wonderful time this evening talking about my work at The University of Hawai’i — thanks to Shawna Yang Ryan and Subramanian Shankar for being such lovely hosts…
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There are a lot of hot takes flying around about the Clarkesworld / ChatGPT AI thing, and it’s making me a little frustrated, clearly, since I’m up at 12:30 a.m. thinking about it, so let me add my hot take to the mix. Hopefully I can clarify some things in the process. Here are ten
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Another scene for the Patreon story. I’m not going to post ALL of them on FB, because, y’know, then there’d be no incentive for people to sign up to my Patreon. But expect most of this first story, and then teasers to follow…. I would REALLY LIKE to be the kind of writer who writes
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Naming help? I need a nickname, people. The university the current story is set at has given itself the grandiose title of The University of All Worlds, which is in keeping with the founders’ ambitious plans. But that is clunky to keep repeating in a story, and I’m quite sure the students would’ve come up
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Another scene for the Patreon story, which really needs a name at this point. I think it’s turning into sort of a cross between Dragonsinger, Fame, and Star Trek. I can live with that. Now, more tea. Or maybe juice. So many good choices. ***** The rest of the class went by in a blur;
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Traveling with sprained ankle update: Would it have been worth reinjuring the sprained ankle to do this visit to Hawai’i? No. But was it worth having a sort of achey travel day yesterday, and a slightly swollen foot at the end of it? Emphatically yes, especially since I get to spend three days writing in
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Drafted a little more of the Patreon story on the plane. My current plan is to get it to a stopping point — maybe 3-4 more scenes? And then decide whether I like it enough to want to write more of it every week for Patreon. I think, given my general chaotic schedule, that it’s
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