This went out today to those who either emotionally or financially sponsor my Clarion West write-a-thon commitment. If you want to see the full poem, please send me a message here or through facebook or my email to let me know you want to support me, or you can sponsor my efforts financially through my write-a-thon page by donating to Clarion West ( Read more... )

Haven't been writing journal entries, though. Not totally sure why, except this has been an exceedingly demanding year. It wanted a lot of me ( Read more... )

A month ago I wrote myself this email, but I thought I'd copy it here to remind myself (and get it out of my inbox). Note that I rarely remember my dreams ( Read more... )

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This was an energetic, upbeat, and hard-working week for the Clarion West students as they submitted their first real stories (rather than exercise stories) and had them critiqued by the class and by the quite wonderful Stephen Graham Jones. He is an impressive teacher and a lot of fun, as well. His style was a great match for Clarion West, and ( Read more... )

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1. Go to page 77 (or 7th) of your current ms
2. Go to line 7
3. Copy down the next 7 lines - sentences or paragraphs - and post them as they’re written. No cheating.

Since the current project doesn't yet have 77 pages, I went to the 7th line of page 7, which was the start of a paragraph. Seven sentences brought me this:

I might be excited, too, ( Read more... )