I am soliciting feedback on when and if a follow up session to last month's technical session on setting up a blog would work from AAAWG members.  At this point I am suggesting either Saturday the 20th or 27th of February.  Please drop me an eLine if you are interested and which of the dates would work for you.

The wiki article, which has additional information about location, time, etc., is here: Q-and-A follow up session on How to Set Up and Run a Web Site

Last night I pulled out a copy Fredric Brown's Angels & Spaceships that I  Read the rest of this entry »

Patrick recently solicited advice from the rest of the AAAWG members on giving characters a unique voice in dialogue. He received much excellent advice that I will attempt to summarize here. Read the rest of this entry »

Based on the email I’ve received from those interested in attending the “How to Set Up and Run a Web Site for Less Than $125 per Year” tutorial, I think January 16th, from 10 AM to 2 PM (or we have exhausted ourselves) will work.  We will be meeting at Patrick’s apartment complex’s clubhouse (instruction on how to find forthcoming).  Either email me or reply to this post to RSVP.  I will post additional information about what you might want to bring and what I plan to cover.

Update:  I’ve added a wiki article here.

At a recent meeting of our writers group, a new-comer read two essays. The first one was on the importance of writing and writers to our civilization. Read the rest of this entry »

Those of you on the AAAWG email list will already know about this, Read the rest of this entry »

Last week I promised I would send out my favorite short story market research link to AAAWG.  I’ve finally gotten around to it.

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I received a number of requests from the attendees of the AAAWG holiday party for my “Mexican Lasagna” recipe. I’ve posted it on my wiki, so follow this link:

http://fritzfreiheit.com/wiki/Mexican_Lasagna_recipe

Enjoy!

If you are a writer you may have heard of the admonition “kill your darlings“. Read the rest of this entry »

Over at LinkedIn I have been involved in a discussion about Read the rest of this entry »

Below the cut is a 2008 WorldCon attendance status page from my wiki. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve finished up my final (major) edit pass of “Death Rides for Free” and am busily putting the edits in to the doc. I normally do my edits on a hard copy so as to compartmentalize my working environments. I use the word processor primarily for the “barf” phase, then edit on hard copy in the “polish” phase in order to avoid the temptation to edit / wordsmith during the barf phase. After a slash-and-burn rampage with the red pen (which is misleading, as I tend to write bare-bones and then augment and add far more than I remove during an edit pass) I type it all in.

We are almost to the end of the critiques from the Turkey City Lexicon. The second to last set of critiques is characters and viewpoint. Read the rest of this entry »

The next set of critiques from the Turkey City Lexicon is background. Read the rest of this entry »

The next set of critiques from the Turkey City Lexicon is plots. Read the rest of this entry »

The next set of critiques from the Turkey City Lexicon is common workshop story types. Read the rest of this entry »

The next set of critiques from the Turkey City Lexicon is for paragraph and sentence structure. Read the rest of this entry »

The next portion of the SF critique lexicon that I’ve pulled out deals with writing dialogue. Read the rest of this entry »

Recently I have been putting together a writer’s glossary and as part of this I have (re-)examining the SF critique lexicon that put together last year. Read the rest of this entry »

The Scarlet Pimpernel, who is one of my favorite characters of all time and one of the inspirations for the Night Whippoorwill, is the Wiki Page of the Day:

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I got on a reading recommendations jag and it all started with Cosma’s Notebooks (a cool web site which I hesitate to call a blog — oh, OK, I will — is a personal blog about science, book, computation, etc geeks)…

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Here are some links to agents and editors with blogs (this is a work in progress and I will be updating it for a while):

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This morning I posted on my wiki an essay on critiquing that I started a few months ago (contents below the fold). As with all wiki articles, it is a work in progress.

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I’ve got an alternate version of GetWIKI working.

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