Archive for the 'Travel' Category
Fish, or lack thereof
As many of you know, I just returned from a trip to Alaska. We stood in the back of a rocky boat, shivering gazing in awe at the Sawyer Glacier as it calved. We learned that it is receding so fast they say it is “galloping” backwards. The cruise ship itself could not get near [...]
Starry Heaven: Last Full Day
Wow. All done now except the closing party. I’d call this a rousing success. Highlights of the last two days:
We attended a great wine social event complete with excellently interesting science people at The Wine Loft last night. I could have kept talking to them for hours. Everyone was interesting and erudite.
I’m quite ready to [...]
Starry Heaven Day 3: The Phase Shift
Workshops have rhythm. The rhythm for Starry Heaven starts with critiquing the beginnings of each others’ books. Beginnings matter – they are what sells manuscripts to agents and publishers, and what initiates readers into the world of the book. So we have been sitting in a large group sharing impressions of each others beginnings.
Today, we move to a new phase [...]
Starry Heaven Day 2: Fire, a Walk, and the Night Sky
A great morning of critiques. Excellent food. We followed that by spending the day hiking. Good thing we went today since they are going to close the forest tomorrow or the next day. The fire is still burning, and has gotten bigger. It is still not too near us, and has burned no structures, although [...]
Starry Heaven Post 1: Fire over Flagstaff
I am in Flagstaff. Arizona, at the Starry Heaven writer’s workshop. That means there are 11 of us critiquing each other’s novel manuscripts. We’ve spend months prepping, and it’s quite fun to meet in person. I knew two of the people from before, and had met a few of the others in passing. Some are [...]
Coming Events
I’ve missed mentioning multiple appearences of me and/or my work:
The story, “My Father’s Singularity” is up at Clarkesworld in issue #45. Note that I share this issue with delightful Nina Kiriki Hoffman and her story is excellent. Two science fiction stories written by women in one issue, and in what is becoming the premiere sf [...]
Heading Back to Normal Life
After two weeks in Bend, where I have been mostly doing laundry and cooking and driving about and worrying and other stuff related to caring for my most-beloved little brother, I will be heading home soon to a faster pace and more of the usual activity. There will be some catching up to do.
The weather [...]
Pardon my Absence
I have been quieter than usual in the Interwebs the past few weeks. All is not well. To be more exact, my youngest brother is not well. He’s gone and gotten a fairly rare and difficult cancer, which has provided me with time with him (yay!), sadness that he is doing as well as I [...]
Rainforest Writer’s Retreat Day 4
We’ve now seen the last sunset we’ll see here. I’ll be happy to get home, but another three days of writing would finish the book. I’m over 11,000 words, but there are that many again to go, or maybe a few more.
The highlights of today were a great talk by Barb and JC Hendee (writer’s [...]
Rainforest Writers, Day 2
We had a great talk by Susan Mathews on character and then another by James Van Pelt on endings. It’s fun to listen to writer’s teach – we all approach it so differently!
And of course,being with sf writers, the afternoon walk was full of talk about the atmosphere and axial tilt and the Cambrian day [...]
