Somehow I feel like a superhero in this pic. Maybe it’s the pose. Maybe it’s the sky. Maybe it’s the typewriter earrings. Week seven of teaching done — we tackled Delany’s “Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones,” a story I just purely love, and then spent much of the fiction workshop co-writing, as […]
When I first thought about doing this, it felt a little silly, to spend 2.5 hrs on the train each way, just to have a one hour lunch meeting in NY. But then I remembered that I *love* working on the train — I love the landscape slipping past, the rhythm of the rumbling train
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Worked on the screenplay for an hour this morning — I’m up to 9 pages, which sounds impressive, until you realize that’s only 9 minutes. I feel like I’ve barely gotten into the very beginning of the novel, though, which is making me wonder if this will actually translate to a feature film, or if
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I’ve been struggling with feeling like I had so much STUFF to do, and SO MANY e-mails I was behind on, that I didn’t actually have time to write. But deadlines are useful; I have material due to my screenwriting class by midnight Saturday, and I don’t want to do it all at the last
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The SLF is teaching its first online writing class starting tonight, Ted Schneider‘s Intro to Screenwriting, a six-week class. I’m excited! This is a pilot class for us; we’re using poor Ted as a guinea pig to figure out how to make the process smooth for both teachers and students. Thank you, Ted! If it
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I’ve been remiss in announcing that the SLF has started offering online writing classes! I’m very excited about this — it’s something we’ve been working towards for a long time. I’m actually signed up to take the first class myself, Intro to Screenwriting with Ted Schneider. I took a class with him this summer, and
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I was delighted to take a selfie with some of the current Strange Horizons staffers, and I admit, a little teary when I saw the massive list of folks who make the magazine I founded happen, every single damn year. That’s community, people. That’s love. Strange Horizons didn’t win the Hugo (again — a finalist
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I love this pic of Emmanuel Henderson with the World Science Fiction Society banner — a sign of great things to come for him and his writing. Other pics — two of my favorite Chicago buildings, the Wrigley building (which glows white because they bleach it regularly, if I’m remembering right — Wrigley chewing gum
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I came into the con already tired, which isn’t ideal, but I found a decent hack — an Irish coffee midday both perked me up and relaxed sore muscles that had just done a lot of cooking. Better living through chemistry. (The other drink is Emmanuel‘s — I wasn’t double-fisting them, I swear). Had a
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I’m delighted, and slightly nervous, to announce that I’ve agreed to be Toastmaster at WindyCon, this Nov 11-13 in Lombard. I think this means I’m supposed to be mildly entertaining while announcing things, pronounce people’s names correctly, try my best to not say anything hurtful, and keep it short and snappy. I think I can
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