California Creative Writers Conference
One Man Show
People have this image of a writer spending his time locked up in his basement typing away. And while there is a lot of that – personally, sitting at my desk in the corner of my bedroom underneath my “My Little Pony” plushies and my “One Piece” wall scroll – […]
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Back from a Conference
Back from the California Creative Writer’s Conference. Just made and had a late dinner. Brain dead and food coma is not a good combination. Great conference, more on it next week. Zzzzzz…. Dennis 154th blog completed. Second Steampunk novel: 783 words. <– This is what I’m now concentrating on. […]
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Digitally Tired
This blog is going to be short. I’ve been at the Digital Authors and Indie Publishing virtual conference all weekend, and it will continue throughout the week in the evenings. Here are some of the highlights so far: Sat. 10:00am – THE FINE ART OF PITCHING TO AN AGENT OR […]
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The Greater Los Angeles Writers Conference
The Greater Los Angeles Writers Conference Two weeks ago, was the GLAWC, after which I was too brain-dead to write it up. The following week I wrote about Karl Lembke’s memorial. So now, here is my overview of the conference. This was the first in-person conference in over two years. […]
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Busy Weekend
It started Saturday morning at 6:00 am. I was on kitchen staff at church making breakfast burritos for the woman’s conference the way we make them at the men’s monthly breakfasts. Hey, women need burritos, too. Luckily, I’m ¼ Mexican, so I know how to wrap a burrito. After getting […]
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Back to school, part 2
The California Creative Writer’s Conference continued through the week and ended yesterday. In addition to more great panels, there was an Editor Happy hour. This was an informal Zoom gathering where attendees could speak and ask questions of editors Deanna Brady, Helga Schier, Stephanie Kelly and literary agent, Steve Hutson. […]
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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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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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I Must be Doing Something Right
As I’ve been writing, I’ve been attending the California Creative Writing Conference for the past two weekends, February 26th to March 6th. Yesterday I attended Debra Eckerling’s panel, “If you are an Author, Why Aren’t You Blogging?” I’ve been blogging consistently for almost a year. This is my 51st blog! […]
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