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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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Some objects appear closer …

March 5, 2010

… than they really are. Each of us is responsible for determining our own success. And that’s what makes this post so frustrating. I’ve not been as determined as I need to be. I’m not determined to kill my work. In many ways I am blessed, fortunate for the things that I have in my [...]

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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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It’s been a good month …

May 31, 2009

Near the finish line of wrapping up a big submission for the year, I started to reflect on how this past month I wrote nearly 7,000 words — and I did it very quietly. What’s funny is that the shortest assignments may have been the toughest to complete this month. I can’t let them out [...]

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