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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Send in the Clones
While looking on YouTube for Star Wars news, Kris came upon a series of videos by ArTorr. Part three is a very detailed breakdown of the animated TV series, “The Clone Wars”, which premiered on Cartoon Network, then moved to Disney DX. It covers the amazing history of the seven-season […]
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Stay on Track
I was a member of GLAWS for about a year before I joined my first critique group. That was because I didn’t join until I had a finished work to present. But when I joined, I found you learn just as much about writing a screenplay critiquing others’ work as […]
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The Art of the Brick
Yesterday, Kris and I were lucky enough to be invited by The Left Coast Mahjong, Art Show and Lego Cabal (friends of ours through Loscon) to go to “The Art of The Brick” exhibit at the California Science Center https://californiasciencecenter.org/ “The Art of the Brick” is a traveling Lego exhibition […]
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Stringing the Story Along
Thinking about the Writers Conference two weeks ago, I am reminded of something else I’m grateful to have learned about through GLAWS. But first, I need to backtrack a bit. Back when I was at the USC School of Cinema/Television, I took several screenwriting classes. Generally, they taught the way […]
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How do you get to Canterlot Hall?
Yesterday was the end of the Greater Los Angeles Writers Conference for 2021. One full weekend of panels, followed by a week of panels in the afternoon, followed by another Saturday of panels. Since we are still holding the conference on Zoom and not in person, this is the format […]
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