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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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/ …
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, …