Week Five Instructor: Nalo Hopkinson Week Five Instructor’s Superpower: Dance moves Unexpected Week Five Discoveries: I AM A WRITER LOOK AT ME I WRITE THAT’S HOW I DO I CAN WRITE YOU ANYTHING WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO WRITE Week Five Story Wordcount, Current: 4100 words out of 5500ish, currently contains NO CONFLICT GO ME Week Five Story Title: shut up, …
Month: July 2015
Week Four is Done
Week Four Instructor: Susan Palwick Week Four Instructor’s Superpower: Empathy. We got into some deep shit about trauma and Big Feelings and how it’s our responsibility as speculative fiction writers to offer people hope, and not just trendy ironic bleakness. I can be ironic and bleak with the best of them but that’s not my writing, not 100% of …
Week Three is Done
Week Three Instructor: Tobias Buckell Week Three Instructor’s Superpower: Plot & structure analysis, holy wowzers. The man is a story machine. Also, he’s very good at watching drunk people be drunk. Unexpected Week Three Discoveries: I can still write a story in a week even if my brain is all, “don’t write a story this week.” Week Three Story Wordcount, …
Week Two is Done
Week Two Instructor: Eileen Gunn Week Two Instructor’s Most Surprising Non-ironic Quote: “Oh, but that was back when I was in that biker gang.” Unexpected Week Two Discoveries: I can actually survive quite happily on four hours of sleep and very little food if these are tempered by extremely high-quality company and lots and lots of beer Week Two Story Wordcount, …
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