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Developing Your Writing Toolkit

How do you develop the range or adaptability of your unique writer’s voice? One thing that I have found helpful in making progress in this is – ironically – imitating others. If you were learning to speak another language, and wanted to sound natural you probably would not settle for just ‘being understood’ – justContinueContinue reading “Developing Your Writing Toolkit”

Year In Review 2023

Last year in December I wrote a ‘Year in Review 2022’, the main purpose of which was to convince myself that although I had not published my first novel, nor even got an agent, that I had achieved something in the sphere of writing. As we close out 2023 I thought I would do itContinueContinue reading “Year In Review 2023”

Fyrecon

I have attended a few conferences over the last year (Worldcon, Boskone, Readercon) and each have had their unique aspects. This past weekend I had the chance to attend Fyrecon, which was again different and I thought I would write a few thoughts about my experience. To start Fyrecon, though it used to be inContinueContinue reading “Fyrecon”

Being Part of a Writers’ Reading Group

Hanging out with other SFF fans can be fun. Hanging out with other writers can be a growth opportunity, If you want to combine those, I highly recommend writers join a reading group made up of other writers. Why? Reading is fun. And what more fun way to do it than in the genre ofContinueContinue reading “Being Part of a Writers’ Reading Group”

READERCON 32

So this past weekend (July 13th to 16th, 2023) I attended ReaderCon! For anyone that doesn’t know, Readercon is a Sci Fi and Fantasy con focussed on the written word, both reading and writing. Unlike many cons, it does not have video games, role-playing game rooms, dress up/costume events, or many of the other thingsContinueContinue reading “READERCON 32”

Clarion West 6-Week Flash Fiction Workshop

So I’m doing the Clarion West 6-week flash fiction workshop. I thought I would write about it here in case people are interested in doing it in the future and would like to know what’s involved. We were assigned into groups of 7 and we have just completed the first week. This comprised some onlineContinueContinue reading “Clarion West 6-Week Flash Fiction Workshop”

Futurescapes: Workshopping the first 3000 Words

So on 5/2/23 I made a blog entry about the Futurescapes application and lead up to that workshop. Today I thought I would round out that with a post about my experience with the actual workshop. As a reminder I did the SFF 3000 word novel workshop. There are also KidLit, Horror, and longer 100ContinueContinue reading “Futurescapes: Workshopping the first 3000 Words”

Futurescapes: Application and Pre-workshop

So in March this year I did the futurescapes writing workshop. Before I did it I had searched blogs for people’s experiences and I thought, given it had been of interest to me to get different people’s takes, I would write about my experience with it. Now futurescapes does a number of different workshops, soContinueContinue reading “Futurescapes: Application and Pre-workshop”