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Tag Archives: caren gussoff
Live Classes for January Through March 2017
There is still room in the two live classes left this year, both happening next weekend. The first on Saturday is Linguistics for Genre Writers with Juliette Wade, at the usual 9:30-11:30 AM Pacific time. This class differs from pretty much every other one I’ve seen in that Wade doesn’t just cover linguistics and worldbuilding, but how to use the principles of linguistics to strengthen, deepen, and otherwise improve your prose. I heartily endorse it.
The second, which is also a really fun and informative class, is To Space Opera and Beyond with Ann Leckie. Technical difficulties hindered the first sessions but everything is smooth and running well now! In this class, Ann talks about space opera, its characteristics, how to handle them, and the process of writing not just a single novel but a series, while we provide writing exercises to take away and use to apply what Ann has told you. Ann is a lively and congenial teacher, funny without being snarky, and above all encouraging and inspiring. I’m really looking forward to the next class, which happens on Sunday, December 11, 9:30-11:30 AM Pacific time. There is still room in that and the Saturday, January 7 class at the same time.
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Tagged ann leckie, caren gussoff, f&sf writing classes online, how to use linguistics in writing, how to write a novel, how to write f&sf, how to write flash fiction, how to write space opera, juliette wade, online writing classes, speculative fiction writing classes
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Several New Classes, Plus On-Demand Content
I’ve just posted the latest round of classes, October through December, and wanted to call out a couple of highlights.
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Retreat, Day T-7
It feels like I have been here a shorter time than I have, but it’s been great and I have gotten so much work done. I’m filling in gaps on Hearts of Tabat right now and happy with its progress. I wrote a bunch of stories and one poem. I walked on the beach and among the redwoods, and I got to spend time petting a bunny, and watching deer. I saw a grey fox and a barn owl swooping along late at night and covey after covey of quail, including a mama with six bitty little perfect quail running as fast as they could to keep up with her. Tonight I’ll lie out under the stars and watch the Perseid meteor shower from probably the best vantage point I’ll have in my life.
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Tagged bud sparhawk, caren gussoff, charity auction, david gerrold, george r.r. martin, haunted, raappacini's crow, sasquan, SFWA, sfwa cookbook, vonda mcintyre, worldcon
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2014 in Review
January: The Year Begins in the San Juans 2014 was a great year and I want to thank the wonderful friends and family that helped make it so. I started the year out in the San Juan Islands with Wayne, … Continue reading
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Tagged caren gussoff, chris bell, dallas taylor, david farland, hello kitty, hemingway house, kevin j anderson, norwescon, randy henderson, san francisco, SFWA
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You Should Read This: The Birthday Problem by Caren Gussoff
Ever wondered what it would be like to wander through plague-ridden Seattle in the future? This book’s a good approximation.[/caption]In the interest of full disclosure, I will say that Caren’s a close friend. But beyond that The Birthday Problem is terrific SF, and a great example of interweaving narratives that is a) highly enjoyable to read and b) highly instructive to take a look at.
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Tagged caren gussoff, probablity, seattle, sf about math, the birthday problem, you should read this
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End of the Year Reading Recommendations
I spent a good chunk of my summer reading through a multi-volume fantasy series for the sake of completeness. The series will remain nameless, because I can’t in good conscience recommend it, but it did impact the amount of other … Continue reading
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Tagged andy weir, awards, caren gussoff, carol berg, clinton boomer, daniel abraham, django wexler, elliott kay, gardner dozois, george r.r. martin, harry connolly, jeff vandermeer, jo walton, kameron hurley, linda nagata, m.c.a. hogarth, m.l. brennan, meilan miranda, reading, sofia samatar, women destroy fantasy
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Why I Love My Writing Group
So, as some may know, I’ve been working on a particular book for a loooong time. Looooong time. It’s the first in a fantasy trilogy and this manuscript has undergone so many convulsions and rewrites that I was getting to the point where I was worried I’d kill it if I went much further. Based on some solid feedback from an interested agent, I started wrestling with it again and performed some major surgery: excised a number of points of view (which will end up in Book 2), removed some extraneous (but charming!) bits misguidedly intended as textual amuse-bouches between chapters, and switched one point of view from 3rd person past to 1st person present.
I was encouraged, but worried that the patient might not have survived the surgery. So I dumped it on my writing group, whose members rose whole-heartedly to the challenge, and we critted it last Saturday.
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Horrific Miscue (Seattle Branch) Group Reading on June 30, 2010
Seattle opens its summer of science fiction with the Horrific Miscue group reading, at the Inner Chapters Bookstore & Cafe, 419 Fairview Avenue North, Seattle, Washington. All proceeds of the reading will go to benefit victims of the Japanese earthquake. Continue reading
