The Oregon Coast workshop kind of kicked my butt. Buy that, I mean it was more work than I had planned for, and as such it’s taken me a little mind-shifting to get myself back on my path. One major thing I took away from it was that as a new freelancer, I needed to […]
Read More ...Hugo nominations open up
Now that the workshop is over, and I can turn some brain cells in other directions… Thanks to Lisa’s gentle reminder, I note that the 2013 Hugo nominations are open. So I suppose I should be a good writer and let you know that if you’re a attending member of Worldcon, meaning you attended last […]
Read More ...A Workshop nears its end
I’ve been at Kris Rusch and Dean Smith’s Oregon Coast Anthology Workshop for the past week. It’s been an absolute blast, but also grueling. Imagine six full days sitting in a room with more than 40 writers and watching 4-6 editors go through manuscripts. Hours, and hours of it. Days and days of it. Quite […]
Read More ...The artist’s career
I met Lisa Silverthorne in the airport on our way to Portland, and since the plane was delayed by about a billion years we had lots of time to catch up a talk about a bunch of writing things. Somewhere in here we got on the topic of our writing careers—which is a term that […]
Read More ...Nominating Singer
Now that the reading sprint is over, I’m coming up for air. It’s with no little pride that among the first things I’ve done is to wander over to the DetCon1 site and nominate my little girl’s debut novel, Singer for their Young Adult or Middle Grade Member’s Choice award. Some folks might say I’m […]
Read More ...Reading … Reading … Reading … the lull after the storm
Yes, it’s been quiet around here for a bit. I know. There are reasons, of course, and of course they are mostly self-inflicted (in the good way). I’ve noted before that I’m getting ready to attend a workshop in Oregon with Brigid (and Lisa Silverthorne, and several other great writers). It’s going to be much […]
Read More ...Good News Abounds
Here I am, taking a break from a huge reading stint that is sucking up pretty much every spare moment I have (about which, more will come later), to relay two pieces of very good news from the Ron Collins writing front. The first of which is that Abyss and Apex has informed me that […]
Read More ...Lisa Silverthorne, in audio!
Cool news for a friend of mine. Check out Fiction River’s podcast of Lisa Silverthorne’s story “Speechless in Seattle.” You can, of course, buy the whole anthology at several places … but here’s the Link that will reveal all. In addition to begin a friend and a great all-around person, Lisa is one of my […]
Read More ...Hard work … the ticket to the game of creativity?
Even after all this time, I still get surprised about how this whole creativity thing works. You see, I’ve spent at least four days working on a final short story that’s due for the workshop I’m going to later this month. I’m sure I’ve spent at least 20 hours on it (probably more like 30). […]
Read More ...Make it mean something
I’ve been reading Chuck Wendig’s blog with some interest the past few days as he’s been talking about publishing, the quality of stories, and how that all plays with the self-indie-whatever publishing crowd. It’s good stuff (though the standard rule of thumb seems to be that I should give you the “vulgar language enclosed warning–not […]
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