I'm back from one of my favorite annual events, TNEO, or "The Never-ending Odyssey." This is a week-long, invitation-only workshop for graduates of the Odyssey Writing Workshop. Going to Odyssey was one of the best decisions I've ever made. I received information via critique and lecture that not only helped me identify weaknesses in my own ( Read more... )

If you're serious about writing fantasy or science fiction, you owe it to yourself to consider Odyssey. I graduated in 2006 and you couldn't pay me to go back to being the writer or person I was before! Yes, it's life-changing, in a very good way. Here's the official press release ( Read more... )

Science fiction, fantasy, and horror writers have until April 8 to apply for Odyssey!

You can read more in this post in the Odyssey Workshop BlogAs a graduate, I can't recommend it enough. I applied on a last-minute whim in 2006, got in, and shudder to think of the writer I might have inflicted on the world pre-Odyssey. If you're serious about ( Read more... )

I worked for a while today on a short story I'm calling "Courting the Witch," previously known as "The Witch's Cat." I sometimes like to use unlikeable protagonists, or anti-heroes, which is definitely the case in this story. I know how I want it to end, I'm just missing a couple small steps in the middle. But I'm pretty happy with how ( Read more... )

Whew! I had an amazing time, learned a lot, got some great feedback, and even got some writing done in the process. And got to hang out with some really cool people and wonderful writers, including maggiedr and pantlessjohnny! Lots of other wonderful folks who aren't on lj or I don't know your user names. Because I'm too lazy to reinvent the wheel, the following is ( Read more... )

Stephan and I went on a mini-vacation on Wednesday and Thursday which consisted of a 12 mile canoe trip down the Blue River in Southern Indiana, one night in a nice B & B, some walking near Patoka Lake, visiting the newly refurbished West Baden Springs Hotel and having lunch at the French Lick Springs HotelThe canoeing was fabulous. The weather ( Read more... )

Seems it has been a while since I updated my poor lj! I started this mainly to keep track of my writing, which has been somewhat stalled lately. However, I am getting back into the swing of things, if a bit more slowly than I might like ( Read more... )

I think I am more or less recovered from Odyssey, though I haven't gotten as much writing done as I had hoped. I did do a complete rewrite of my short short, The True Story of How I Became Real, taking a slightly different approach. I really would like to get this thing in a form I consider final and submit it somewhere soon, but it is a ( Read more... )

I am back home after having a wonderful and constructive experience at the Odyssey Writing WorkshopAs much as I enjoyed Odyssey and everyone there, living in my own house (as opposed to a dorm) with my husband and cats is pretty amazing ( Read more... )

One more week of Odyssey!

You can read blogs about it from our writer in residence, Robert J. Sawyer here: Rob Sawyer's Blog

And from Jeff VanderMeer, one of our author guests, here: Jeff VanderMeer's Blog

I wrote 18 pages yesterday. Yay!