Next week is Loscon!
Still doing con prep, especially prep for the blood drive. That includes flyers, buttons, raffle tickets and a raffle ticket box. Kris is also getting her costume ready for the reading from her novel series, “The Dragonfly Chronicles”. And there are also other panels we are on that we are […]
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And the Prep Goes On…
Getting ready for the Loscon blood drive, but I’m not alone. Three years ago, the American Red Cross started putting ALL of its blood drives on their website so people could find the location nearest to them. This includes blood drives like ours. The picture above is the direct link […]
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Now How Much Would You Bleed?
That was our slogan for our “As Seen On TV” themed blood drive. Every year Kris and I host the Loscon blood drive. Generally, we tie our theme to the theme of the convention. When Loscon had a steampunk theme, our theme became the start of my steampunk trilogy. This […]
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30’s the Charm
Genre LA ended yesterday. It was the 30th conference put on by West Coast Writers Conferences. Being virtual, it started Friday, October 22nd, and ran through Saturday, October 30th. On the weekends it was a full day of programming. On the weekdays it started at 5:00 pm and ran until […]
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And the Winner is…
As a member of GLAWS, Kris and I were invited to this year’s Writers and Illustrators of the Future awards dinner. This is a worldwide contest for new writers and artists with the quarterly winners being published in the yearly Writers and Illustrators of the Future yearly anthology. Since the […]
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Paneling
Last week I mentioned that Kris and I are going to be the Fan Guests of Honor at the upcoming Loscon http://loscon.org/47/ this Thanksgiving weekend. As such, there are a number of events we will be partaking in. We will be in one panel, a “meet the Fan Guests of […]
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Two Paths
In GLAWS there is always a lot of talk about different paths to publishing: Traditional, Indi, Self-Publishing, Print-on-Demand, Kindle, etc. Ways of getting you work out there have become more diverse. Self-publishing used to be known as vanity publishing, but now it may be the right path for certain people. […]
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Coming Into the Home Stretch
The year has been passing by fast. Now that we are in October, we are crashing towards Christmas. Of course, the shutdown doesn’t help. With fewer places to go, one week seems pretty much like the others. There are fewer time markers, like, “In March we went to SLO, in […]
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The Complicated Mechanics of Stress
No One Answer to a Complicated Subject Last week, we went over the question of stress affecting one’s creative writing. Speaking for my own personal life experience (which is the only point of view I can offer our readers) I made the observations that extreme mental and emotional stress impairs […]
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Does Stress Affect Your Writing?
Stress vs Creative Writing – No One Wins When Dennis told me this morning he didn’t have any ideas on what to write about in this week’s blog, I immediately thought of something that would be a good topic to share with our audience. The topic of stress and creative […]
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