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Writers Workshop

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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KC’s speculative fiction scene catching fire?

August 15, 2009

Okay. Catching fire may be as a dear friend of mind would say, “Now, that’s a bold statement.” But the speculative fiction scene in Kansas City is definitely heating up. Don’t get me wrong, the support for speculative fiction has been solid in Kansas City and the surrounding areas for some time. The Kansas City [...]

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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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