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Author Archives: Cat
Video: 5 Tips for Story Submissions
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Tagged motivation, story submissions, tracking story submissions, video, writing
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Flash Fiction: A Horrific Homage to the Seattle Kraken
Start the clock! Release the kraken! Let the hockey players sharpen their blades, let the audience stir restlessly and go one last time for popcorn and sodas and beer, glorious golden beer that tints the ice with its microbrewed haze. … Continue reading
Posted in free fiction
Tagged flash fiction, kraken, seattle, seattle kraken, sports
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Where I’ll “Be” – Flights of Foundry 2021
Find information about the event here. Friday, April 16 6 PM Pacific time How to Put a Game in Your Fiction Moderator – Panelists are P.H. Lee, Erin Roberts, and Gregory Wilson Saturday, April 17, 9 AM Pacific time – … Continue reading
Posted in conventions
Tagged conventions, exiles of tabat, readings, writing your way into your novel
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Where I’ll “Be” – Norwescon 2021 Schedule
Thursday NWW Critique Session with Cat Rambo 8:00am – 12:00pm @ Zoom 1 Cat Rambo (M), Barth Anderson Friday Building Diverse Worlds in Sci-fi and Fantasy 11:00am – 12:00pm @ Maxis Cat Rambo (M), Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Jacqueline Carey, Curtis … Continue reading
Writers and Guilt
Writers are so good at beating themselves up for all sorts of reasons, some valid, some not so much. Here’s some encouragement for dealing with writerly quilt.
Pantsing, the Flow State, and Trusting Yourself as a Writer
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Tagged flow state, pantsing, principles for pantsers, trusting yourself as a writer, writing
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Opinion: When Writers Punch – Up, Down, or Sideways
This is, I hope, my final followup to earlier pieces on reactions to Jason Sanford’s post identifying hate-speech and similar posts in a specific forum of Baen’s Bar, Politics, and the subsequent DisCon action in removing Baen’s leader, Toni Weisskopf, … Continue reading
Posted in publishing
Tagged arguing on the internet, baen books, cancel culture, jason sanford, tolerance, writers behaving badly
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Rambo Academy Campus Calendar for March 2021
Zoom links will be available on Patreon, pinned in #localannouncements on the Discord server, and available via the !calendar command on Discord. How do you get access to these events? Details are here, but basically you can subscribe through Patreon … Continue reading