You know, I feel like I did this last year, too. Dove into the Write-a-thon with both feet, conveniently forgetting a few salient facts. In this year's case, the facts I overlooked are these ( Read more... )

In true Clarion West Alum style, I am diving into this week slightly belatedly and with no clue what I'm doing! Join me for the ride.

THE CHARACTER: An Owomoyela, your narrator, a graduate of the 2008 class of the Clarion West Writers Workshop, author of various and sundry things.

THE CONFLICT: Your intrepid narrator has agreed to work on a ( Read more... )

...and obviously rather old, judging by the date on the Scalzi post. Still, worth sharing.

John Scalzi has written an eloquent, elegant, and brilliant post up on Whatever: Things I Don't Have To Think About Today.

[...] Today I don’t have to think about the people who’d consider torching my house of prayer a patriotic act ( Read more... )

I just ran into this, and I thought it was excellent.

In fact, these kinds of experiences within the black community led Dubois to perceive the nature of the shared but fractured Soul of Blacks/Whites in America as well as the double consciousness of the Black Soul. Dubois is quoted by Long: "A Double consciouness … this sense of always looking ( Read more... )

"At first I thought, all the more reason to say nothing. But the I thought, that wouldn't be fair. To me, partly. Love has a right to be spoken. And you have a right to know that somebody loves you. That somebody has loved you, could love you. We all need to know that. Maybe it's what we need most ( Read more... )

Years later, I was at a con with Chip when a young man asked him a question. That young man, gay and black, as Chip is, had just attended a writing workshop where he'd found it very difficult to get recognition about why the things he was writing about were important. He asked Chip how a black gay man could find his voice in science fiction. Almost ( Read more... )

( In which we learn that the banter is kinda deep-set. )

I, as per usual, blame rionaleonhart.

Post a little weensy excerpt from as many random works-in-progress as you can find lying around! Who knows? Maybe inspiration will burst forth and do something, um, inspiration-y.

Our first post will deal exclusively with Damaged People, because it's gargantuan. Friggin' DP.

( Damaged People )

Why the hell not? I tried to resist, just, er, not very hard.

When you see this, post a little weensy excerpt from as many random works-in-progress as you can find lying around. Who knows? Maybe inspiration will burst forth and do something, um, inspiration-y.

9 Doctor Who, 6 Final Fantasy VIII, 2 House M.D., 6ish Life on Mars, 10ish Stargate: ( Read more... )

Spoilers for Life on Mars.

So, a while ago I got the idea to rewrite Life On Mars using the assumption that Sam really was from 1973, and knew about Operation M.A.R.S. the entire time. I haven't actually done much work on it, but I do have a snippet from s1ep07--the cell death/investigation episode. Because Sam from 1973 Hyde has a whole ( Read more... )