Video Pick of the Week: The Jiggly Things
Symphony of Science presents “The Quantum World” an Auto-Tune video investigating the nature of atoms and subatomic particles.
Archive for the ‘SFWA Blog’ Category
Guest Post: Just One Sentence at a Time:
Brandvold, Monahan, & Piccirilli on Writing Full-time
There is no typical day when you freelance because you never know what’s coming your way. I do, however, go to my home office every morning about 8:30 and work on something until about 5:30. It’s different from a traditional day job because I can work from home and don’t have to commute. If I don’t have any deadlines looming, I can work on what I feel like working on, which is great when you’re creative juices are flowing.
An Interview with Norman Spinrad, Anarchist
I’ve always been interested in dreams, in the dreamtime, what are they, what is it? The Dreamtime, after all, is both real and fantasy. We all experience it, in that sense it is definitely “real.” But the dreams we experience are “fantasies.”
Guest Post: When You Have a Chance to Meet an Editor, Say Hello!
Whether you want to self-publish your novel or are trying to land a traditional publishing contract, it is in every author’s interest to make connections and talk with the editors in our field.
Nebula Awards 2010 Interview: Jennifer Pelland
When I made the switch to writing in my own universes, the dark stuff took a while to come out, and once it did, it took a while for me to figure out how to make those stories publishable.
100 Year Starship Study Public Symposium, Sept. 3 – Oct. 2, Orlando
In September DARPA is sponsoring the 100 Year Starship Study – Public Symposium in Orlando. The goal of the symposium is to foster future research that might ultimately enable a starship program, but at the same time have possible offshoots that may be of benefit to the DoD, NASA, commercial and private sector. The symposium […]
Giraffes, Refrigerators, and Worldbuilding
Pull out your tool belt, roll up your sleeves, and do a little home improvement. Buy a 4’x8′ panel of white laminate and mount it on your office wall. Presto! You’ve got yourself a massive whiteboard for a fraction of the price.
Guest Post: Writers and Pellets
Anything I can control, I pay close attention to. Contracts. Personal relationships. The words. Stories I want to tell.
Video Pick of the Week: Ira Glass on Storytelling
In 2007, Ira Glass of This American Life, gave a presentation at the GEL Conference. If you’re looking for insights from a master storyteller, check it out.
Andre Norton Project
Scott Brown, documentary film producer, will be at DragonCon in Atlanta from Thursday through Monday. He aims to collect interviews from authors who knew or worked with Andre Norton.
