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Dear Clarion West Not-Yets
I wanted to share my conjecture about how Clarion West (and perhaps Clarion UCSD) puts together their classes, based entirely on my experience. The workshop is run by humans who have been doing this...
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Another Damn Novel
Don’t even say it. I KNOW. I have a LOT of novels that I should go polish and send out before I write a new one. But it’s so shiny! And I’ll let you look at some of the sketchy, unfinished eyecandy,...
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How I Novel
(The pale writing is for things I'll figure out the details on as I get closer to the ending.) I know no one probably cares how I write novels right now, since most of you have never seen one and these...
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Cascade Writers Workshop
Registration is still open for the 2013 Cascade Writers Workshop (July 25-28), a 4-day event in scenic Portland, OR, specializing in science fiction and fantasy writing. Guest speakers include agent...
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Snippets, a kids’ magazine run by the non-profit organization I volunteer at, needs only $344 $264 $129 by Sunday night to be funded!...
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Two things! Clarion West Write-a-thon (and butt bees)
1. The Clarion West and Clarion UCSD! Write-a-Thons are fundraisers for these two non-profit organizations. This year, I’m doing something crazy for the workshop I attended, which is Clarion West in...
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Two things! Teen Writers (and more bees)
1. There is limited space left at the Write On! Conference on Sunday, June 23rd at Village Books. If you’re a writer ages 13 – 18, this conference is just like the kind that adult writers attend, but...
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The old Victorian house watched Kyle approach with a thousand shattered glass eyes. The real estate agents had assured him that all the windows were intact, many with the original glass, and showed...
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Write-a-thon: adding a contest!
Story: Achieved! So, last night I finished the first draft of my Clarion West Write-a-thon story! For a ~9,000 word story, halfway through the second week isn’t a bad finish. It’s about a pharmacist...
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Midnight at the Feet of the Caryatides is available today!
The first story I wrote after Clarion West is coming out today in the anthology Where Thy Dark Eye Glances: Queering Edgar Allan Poe, edited by Steve Berman, from Lethe Press. Here are a couple of...
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…And it ended with STORIES eyebrows
Tonight I gave a Copic marker demonstration to my friend Chrissy, who got several markers for Christmas. That was totally fun… we scribbled for hours. And ate cookies. Her husband, who is my VPXIV...
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Write-a-thon Week One: Broken bones and pretend progress
It’s that time of year again, when Clarion and Clarion West graduates and supporters pledge to write every week in solidarity with this year’s students, generating sponsorships from generous donors. I...
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Commemoration
Teresa at Sabbath Tattoo inking a splashy, artsy jellyfish onto my arm. R: jellyfish for VP XIV; L: shark for CW2012 I am a graduate of both Viable Paradise and Clarion West. These workshops changed my...
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Write-a-thon: Monsterpede, page 06 + new collaboration
(For those just joining us, Monsterpede is an anti-all-ages picture book that serves as an allegory for a writer’s journey. I intend to self-publish it for the experience, and I am bloging all my...
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Write-a-thon Week Something-or-other: I don’t even know
I FAILED. Somehow, i am still a writer, and still alive, and still trying, but i have been missing my updates and unless i sit down and do some math right now (which i assure you i will most certainly...
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Moonlit hike
One night last week, we played Ingress for about two hours while we walked the dogs, then we went climbing for another hour at Vital, and when we finished at 1:30 a.m., i said, “Let’s drive down...
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This is how i feel today
This is my challenge: Go forth and do something you haven’t done before, something that makes you also feel like this.
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S.E.E.D.
S.E.E.D. is dedicated to collecting firsthand accounts from witnesses of anomalous activity, even and especially in direct defiance of government suppression efforts. If your government has succeeded...
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No Keys
“No Keys” is about four friends looking for suitable lodgings and finding each prospect hilariously uninhabitable.* It isn’t fictional enough, i’m afraid, even though i guess we haven’t looked at any...
View ArticleIMPORTANT! ECCC
Hey, if you are heading down to Seattle today, please send me an e-mail at ECCC2015@plunderpuss.net and let me know ASAP. (And no, i don’t want a ride, haha. <3) THANK YOU!!
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