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Tag Archives: nisi shawl
Talking About Fireside Fiction’s #BlackSpecFic Report, Part 2 of 2
In Part One I presented a discussion between writers Steven Barnes, Maurice Broaddus, Tananarive Due, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Tonya Liburd, and Nisi Shawl about Fireside Fiction’s reports on black writers in speculative fiction. In this part I want to talk about SFWA and what it can learn or has already learned from both the report and the discussion, along with listing some of the action items I’m taking away from it.
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Where I’ll Be: Orycon 2013 (Portland, OR)
Many apologies, and I will miss seeing a great many of you, but I will not be making it down for Orycon this weekend.
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Tagged anne bishop, brenda cooper, camille alexa, conventions, nisi shawl, orycon, readings, rene radford
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Class Notes: The Art of the Book Review
The first session of this class went well! Nisi Shawl was a terrific guest speaker.
In talking about reviews, we talked about good reviews and what they do. Here’s the notes from that. Continue reading
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Tagged art of the book review, book review, nisi shawl, online workshops, writing book reviews
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Class Notes – Week Two
We talked last week about story shapes and arcs as well as what gets set up in the beginning of a story. This week we talked about characters and dialogue, and how the first shapes the story. One of the … Continue reading
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Tagged cynthia ward, dialogue, nisi shawl, online workshop, terry bisson, writing good characters, writing the other
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