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Yes, I’m splitting this one. When you spend a morning playing with galaxies and dark matter, you kind of need to give them their own space.Um. So to speak.It was Mike Brotherton‘s day to lecture again and he picked up … Continue reading
Category Archives: Writers Workshops
Okay, but we’ll get to that.Our morning was spent up in the Vedauwoo area at something between 8000 and 8300 feet (heard conflicting reports on this from locals, will have to nail it down later). I was dithering about whether … Continue reading
how I spent our morning off… Saturday August 2, AMGot a lift down to “historic downtown Laramie” this morning after breakfast and spent a couple of hours photographing the place and its idiosyncrasies – like, for instance, the bleached cowskulls … Continue reading
Launchpad, Day 1 I didn’t sleep all that well but by all accounts it was endemic because people were wandering around at 4 or 5 AM all over the place this morning – the hard board-like mattress I can take, … Continue reading
I did something really cool a while back. I went to a seminar sponsored by Mystery Writers of America (MWA), an organization I joined after the publication of my first Gina Miyoko Mystery, THE ANTIQUITIES HUNTER (from Pegasus Crime). The seminar … Continue reading
Back in October, I realized that I had a whole book done. I had avoided realizing this for a while because my deep intuition was that it was a sprawling mess, and I didn’t want to show it to anyone … Continue reading
I’m packing. Retirement is coming up fast. Someone asked me, “How do you feel about retiring?” and I answered, “I don’t know. I’ve never done it before.” I’ve quit jobs, yes. Took time off between jobs, yes. I’ve always had … Continue reading
A few weeks ago I saw that Locus was hosting a one-day master writing workshop in Oakland with Kim Stanley Robinson and said to myself, “Hmm. Maybe I should do that.” And then didn’t do anything about it, as one … Continue reading
by Brenda W. Clough This material is in the nature of an esprit d’escalier. Over Memorial Day I was at Balticon, on a panel about revising first drafts. Unfortunately the great editor Gardner Dozois had just passed away, and the … Continue reading
I had the opportunity to attend a writers workshop this weekend with D.P. Lyle and Katherine Ramsland as the two keynote speakers, plus Kathy Flynn and Rhiannon Davis, one a former homicide detective and the latter a forensic analyst. My … Continue reading