No love from Austin
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...Brian is hot shit!
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.Version control, don’t fail me now!
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...Five Points MARTA station
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Ann Crispin’s Writing Workshop Rocks
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...Oh, sweet validation!
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...Why, yes, it IS my first thrice-damned quiz…
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...Note to Self:
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. 😉Subscribe
