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Monthly Archives: July 2012
Physical Prepping for Conventions
I’m off to ArmadilloCon tomorrow, and looking forward to it. Questions about going to conventions often come up in the F&SF class, so I thought I’d answer the main one and then talk about what I do to prep for one.
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Posted in career
Tagged armadillocon, conventions, painted toenails, professionalism, travel tips
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Writing And Courage
You can write anything in fiction. Go for it. No one knows where your life ends and the fictioneering begins, so use the material life gives you freely, gleefully, fully. Face the themes that terrify you and write your fears out without worrying about who will read them. It may not solve them, it may not make them any less scary, but at least you’re using them. And your stories will be so much the better for it.
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Posted in Writing
Tagged courage, new jersey turnpike, ptsd, why writers are lucky, write anything, writing
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On Scarcity
Why Cat’s been scarce of late.
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