At Noon on Friday was the panel “The Legal Ramifications of Monster Hunting” This was a fun one. The panelists were all lawyers, iirc. From the program guide: Paranormal stories, such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Supernatural, and Wynonna Earp, often feature slayers and hunters of vampires, demons, and other supernatural monsters. But if that sort of thing […]
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The first panel Friday morning, at 10, was “Representation vs. Cultural Appropriation: Where’s the Line?” From the program description: Whether you are a career writer or a complete newbie, writing diverse characters can quickly cross into cultural appropriation. Can new writers learn where that line is and learn how to avoid crossing it before they
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Last weekend, I was at Norwescon 44. I wasn’t on any panels and didn’t work in the dealers room this time, so I had lots of time to be in panel audiences. I took lots of notes. So, here they are. Success on Another Planet – 3pm From the description:News flash: The universe is not
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Last weekend at Norwescon, I picked up a book in the dealers room: Enter the Apocalypse, an anthology of apocalypse stories (as opposed to one of my favorite genres, the post-apocalypse story, which the same publisher also has an anthology of.) Anyway, since it’s a collection of short stories by different authors, rather than review
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I knew partway through the first draft of Thoughtless that I was going to want it to be around 100,000 words. My first draft was written by hand in a series of notebooks. While writing Yellow Tape and Coffee, I just picked up whatever notebooks I could find for cheap, usually between $.50 and $1.00
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#112: I was beginning to think I shouldn’t have come here.
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Today’s Throwback Thursday is from the night before my birthday, March 14th, 2004. I was living in St. Louis at the time. I rarely remember my dreams, but I have had a few that felt utterly real, and I remember every detail. This was one of those. I’ve had dreams like this before, where they’re
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Welcome back to Throwback Thursday. This one was originally posted on October 19th, 2016, right after the last “debate” between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. I made some predictions about what would happen if each of them win. I think my “If Hillary wins” predictions were a pretty accurate prediction of what we’re seeing now
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#110: I didn’t know if it was aimed at herself for falling for the trick, or at me for pulling it.
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