Quick Updates for 2011-06-08
@mslaurel1 The reading with @nancykress is open to the public. It's at the Kennedy School at 7pm http://is.gd/ktp46Y # RT […]
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Quick Updates for 2011-06-07
Remember: Nancy Kress, Ted Chiang, & Ursula K. Le Guin read at the SFWA NW reading series in Portland. Tues.
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Guest Post: The No. 1 Habit of Highly Creative People
Creativity is a nebulous, murky topic that fascinates me endlessly — how does it work? What habits to creative people do that makes them so successful at creativity?
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Part 25 – Patterns for Struggle Elements 5 & 6
The stories that use insight and decision are usually those where the main obstacle is the character’s internal problem. For example, in stories where love and friendship is on the line and the obstacle is the main character’s values, it may be that the hero has to make a decision to place love above something else.
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Quick Updates for 2011-06-04
@diannefox @moirarogersbree SFWA has accepted electronic publication as qualifying for membership for years. # @moirarogersbree Can you point to what
In Memoriam, News, The SFWA Blog
In Memoriam: Joel Rosenberg
Joel Rosenberg (b.1954) died on the evening of June 2, a day after suffering a respiratory depression that caused a
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Quick Updates for 2011-06-02
@DebNemeth @AuthorGuy SFWA has accepted epub and POD as qualifying material for years. # SFWA member Leah Cypess's second fantasy
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Quick Updates for 2011-06-01
@ghostfinder It includes a sub to The Bulletin. # @ghostfinder I'm not sure. Drop a line to office@sfwa.org to check.
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Guest Post: Proprioception
Being paralyzed led me to becoming a writer. While in that incapacitated state, I began spinning stories in order to go to the places I physically could not. It was no surprise that those stories were science fiction and fantasy, and that their main characters tended to be people with amazing abilities and “deformities.”
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Part 24 – Patterns for Struggle Elements 3 – 5
Just as I need to know my hero’s goal, motives, and plan, I also need to know the same things about my antagonist. In fact, in some stories the antagonist’s plans are what drive the story.
Nebula Awards, News, The SFWA Blog
John E. Johnston, III, Awarded SFWA Service Award
John E. Johnston, III, was the recipient of this year’s SFWA Service Award, presented at the Nebula Awards ceremony in
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Quick Updates for 2011-05-26
Congratulations to SFWA member @RobertJSawyer whose novel WWW: WATCH won the Hal Clement Award for Best YA SF Novel. http://bit.ly/kkxK8i