I’ve got a panel coming up for CoSine 2013 and decided to do a bit more research than normal. In this case the panel will discuss whether or not the makers of “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” are justified in stretching out the original novel “The Hobbit: There and Back Again” into three movies. I […]
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OsFest 5 has become one of my favorite conventions to date. It was an eight-hour drive to get there and back. Guy De Marco, Peter J. Wacks and I managed to slip in a dozen panels each over the weekend (okay, so Peter got in one more—overachieving bastard that he is), and from my side
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At OsFest 5 I had the good fortune to be involved with a panel called “Plot in an Hour.” Guy De Marco, Peter J. Wacks and I guided our audience through creating a science fiction novel plot, and had it done in an hour. I have to admit, it was some of the most fun
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I’ve met a plethora (yes, I said plethora) of writers and authors over the past two years, and from every level of the craft both in skill and career level. I’ll tell you the one constant for pretty much all of them: writers groups. Writing is, for the most part, a solitary craft. We write
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One day of the convention has passed by. We pulled in at about 2:15 after an 8-hour drive from Denver to Omaha, Nebraska for OsFest5. Special thanks go out to Guy De Marco and his lovely wife T. L. De Marco for putting pretty much all of this even together for Peter J. Wacks and me. Last
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One of my favorite people (Kerushi Mangetsu), a friend/fan/cowerker, had captured me in a picture with a friend of hers while we were at th 2012 GalaxyFest:
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It’s about to be a Blue Dot morning and wrapping up one project and starting another. Coffee’s hot and the oatmeal too. Still a little wonky from the convention, but I learned this weekend that what I thought was an impossibility might actually be not. All in all, the universe is set to simmer and
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The panel on aliens and westerns went pretty well. Just got back from the bar where I had a fantastic single-malt and then sat in on some most interesting conversation. Tomorrow is more of a me day. I’ll be in the audience for a few panels and then some reading and writing time… including the
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