I hope to post periodic updates on my Clarion experience here, although not every day. What I'd most like to do is share the best writing advice that I hear from the instructors, and the insights that arise from the crit process ( Read more... )

Some of you may be aware that there is a new phenomenon called the "twitterfic," a complete story that fits into 140 characters (call it 20-25 words), the length of a "tweet" on Twitter. Users of Twitter can follow various "twitterzines," such as Thaumatrope, Tweet the Meat and Nanoism, and see the fics as they come out. All of them also have Web ( Read more... )

Here we go, philosophers, writers and curmudgeons:

1. I provide a link to Robert Reed's cute little story, A Woman's Best Friend, in Clarkesworld magazine.
    
2. Robert Reed is among most prolific and successful living writers of short-form science fiction. He publishes quite a lot.
    
3. Clarkesworld is a professional market by the standards of the Science ( Read more... )