by Katherine Villyard | Sep 8, 2006 | scripts
I received my annual “Thanks, but no thanks!” letter from Austin today. A sample, for the curious: Thank you for submitting your script, Double Feature, to the Austin Film Festival’s 2006 Screenplay Competition. This year we received over 4,000...
by Katherine Villyard | Sep 7, 2006 | life, the universe, and everything
His story, “The Girl with the Killer Eyes,” will appear in The Best of Jim Baen’s Universe 2006 as well as Jim Baen’s Universe issue 3. Check it out.
by Katherine Villyard | Sep 6, 2006 | geekiness, short fiction
Somehow, the story I sent Ann Crispin was missing a line I thought was in there. No wonder she didn’t notice it. 😉 It must be part of the conversion from Open Office format to rich text format. Note to self: Do not maintain too many versions of a story in too...
by Katherine Villyard | Sep 3, 2006 | cons
by Katherine Villyard | Sep 1, 2006 | workshops
If you get the chance, I highly recommend Ann Crispin’s writing workshop. She teaches beginning and advanced workshops every year at Dragoncon, and the beginning workshop rocked. It was worth the price of admission just for the manuscript critique. I plan to...
by Katherine Villyard | Aug 13, 2006 | short fiction
Ann Crispin recommended The First Five Pages by Noah Lukeman for her writer’s workshop. The chapter on subtlety was sweet, sweet validation. Yeah, sure, I’ve been known to overdo it on occasion. I’d rather understate than write the scene where...
by Katherine Villyard | Aug 1, 2006 | procrastination
I got it from Jen; can I blame her for my posting a quiz? 😉 http://www.scifi.com/sfw/column/sfw13339.html I got an 80. “A score of 66 or higher—You’re a E.E. ‘Doc’ Smith, Larry Niven, Greg Bear, Vernor Vinge, Charles Stross or Nancy...
by Katherine Villyard | Jul 30, 2006 | short fiction, writing mysticism
It’s fine to have a programmer’s aesthetic when writing fiction. Just make sure you declare your variables and functions up at the top. 😉
by Katherine Villyard | Jul 21, 2006 | selling fiction
Up until this point, I’ve been very firm in the idea that I should not rewrite old stories. (I’m not sure what the definition of “old” is, in this case, but…) Well. I believed quite firmly that “Median Effective Dose” was the...