Happy New Year! To start 2010 well, here’s a gem of a link I found under “tools for writers” at the Toronto Public Library site: 10 Universities offering free writing courses. Happy reading and writing….
Writing
Sand running through hour glass but no Wicked Witch
Yesterday, I got a lot of organizational work done on the computer and I blogged a book review. I wrote 1690 words of fiction, which represented me getting past a block. Today, I have to bypass the distractions and concentrate on my work-in-progress. In the evening, I will be meeting a Toronto fantasy author at
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Bios by Robert Charles Wilson
To inform my current novel-in-progress, I went to all the vendors at WorldCon, requesting books of biological takeover and spores from outer space. Bios was one of the recommendations. There is a much more thorough review here, which you might want to look at, since I read Bios with impure motives. This is half-review, half encouragement
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WorldCon – Aug 6-10
From WorldCon I went into preparation mode for a weekend spent at the cottage with friends. I did some writing and read a book to review (more about that in a later post) but I haven’t felt like blogging about WorldCon. The experience was too overwhelming to sort out in a week. I got lost
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Still making slow progress
This is my current word count. It is not likely to climb much over the next six days but I will be getting a critique of the first 10 000 words on Saturday. Wish me good luck and go read some Science Fiction. It’s the genre that’s out to save the world – over and
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Writing, writing, writing
Progress Meter 42869 / 65000 words. 66% done! These days I’m trying to write more and blog less. WorldCon is on in less than a week!
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Breaking 40 000
40009 / 65000 words. 62% done! To celebrate the rising word count, and to encourage myself to work a little faster, I decided to give myself a widget. I’m still a little disappointed with my daily word output this week but sometimes quality can’t be rushed. I’m edging up on a huge turning point in
Writing, Skyping and Podcasting dreams
I didn’t write over the weekend or yesterday. Today I managed 1967 words. That’s just under 8 pages. Not a record-breaking day but I’m encouraged. I even managed to type a dialogue scene while waiting in the dentist’s office. I received the fiction pieces for the WorldCon writing workshop. The format is a small circle
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Wondrous Strange by Lesley Livingston
I met Lesley Livingston, author of Wondrous Strange, at the AD Astra SF/ Fantasy conference in Toronto. She launched the book there and took place in a couple of interesting panel discussions. My favorite of these was a discussion of fight choreography and fencing. Livingston is a principal performer and founding member of the Tempest
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I’m getting critiqued at Anticipation!
This week has been writing Nirvana with my son in camp but yesterday all that feel-good creativity ran up against crunch time. In the morning, I racked up a decent word count over 1 000 words but I had to dedicate the rest of the day and most of the night to editing. The absolute
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