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John Scalzi

Take interwebs tour of Viable Paradise Instructors #vp14

June 18, 2010

There’s less than two weeks to get your application in for the next Viable Paradise (VP), a one-week workshop in writing and selling commercial science fiction and fantasy, taught by professional authors and acquiring editors. If you don’t have a story you love, you can get another short story written. As I saw one of my VP 13 [...]

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So … what’s your story? #vpxiii

October 14, 2009

“So … what’s your story?” The question Jim MacDonald posed to a great many of the students was exactly how my Viable Paradise experience began. And the double-entendre pretty much summed up my time at the exclusive week-long Science Fiction writers workshop – nothing is ever perfectly clear. Yet there were a few things that [...]

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On waiting, writing and Whatever …

July 2, 2009

While I nervously wait to hear whether I’m accepted into Viable Paradise, I thought I’d finally report on my late-May ConQuest 40 adventure. (Because, afterall, I’m late with this having been focused on getting my VP application in.) I enjoyed seeing the ever-entertaining John Scalzi (as well as hear all his ruminations on how we [...]

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