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October 20, 2012 · 10:51 pm

Orycon 2012 schedule–Nov. 2-4

Notice a little bit early, but if any of you are going to be at Orycon, do say hi!  Especially at my reading at 4 pm on Friday!  I think I might be giving something away for that one…and keep in mind, Friday I will be coming in directly from parent conferences.  Eiyiyi.  So I’ll probably still look teacherish.

Friday

To Outline or Not to Outline, that is the question Lincoln  Fri Nov 2  2:00pm-3:00pm

Some authors were taught to draw up outlines of their entire story arc before fleshing out their writing. Others have developed different methods which serve them well. Experienced authors discuss what works for them, when, and perhaps, why. Karen Azinger, Dave Smeds, Joyce Reynolds-Ward

Joyce Reynolds Ward’s Readings Grant Fri Nov 2 4:00pm-4:30pm Joyce Reynolds-Ward

Plus a Meet and Greet for Workshop participants.

Saturday

A touch of Farmer, a pinch of LeGuin Morrison Sat Nov 3 12:00pm-1:00pm

Panelists discuss their biggest influences and what books have changed the recent landscape in SF/F/H literature. Keffy R. M. Kehrli, Deborah J. Ross, Joyce Reynolds-Ward

Group 5 Fantasy Short Story/Novel Excerpt WW2 Sat Nov 3 1:00pm-2:00pm Joyce Reynolds-Ward, Irene Radford

Can Dumbing Down be Reversed? Ross Island Sat Nov 3 3:00pm-4:00pm Kristin Landon, Joyce Reynolds-Ward, Arthur Bozlee, Rory Miller

Playing God: Apocalyptic storytelling Hawthorne Sat Nov 3 5:00pm-6:00pm Writing the end times. Flood, plague, the degradation of moral values? How to write a believable and satisfying end to your imaginary world. Blake Hutchins, (*)Ken Scholes, Joyce Reynolds-Ward, Bob Brown

Sunday

Geeks v nerds v freaks Madison Sun Nov 4 12:00pm-1:00pm To which do you aspire? What are the differences and similarities, and to what proportion are they found? What function (or anti-function?) do we, er, they, serve? Annie Bellet, Joyce Reynolds-Ward, (*)Janet Freeman, Anthony Pryor

The Autistic Spectrum: is Autism really on the rise, or are diagnostics just getting better? Hawthorne Sun Nov 4 1:00pm-2:00pm Kamila Miller, G. David Nordley, Joyce Reynolds-Ward, (*)Janet Freeman, Karen Black

At what point does society stop being civilized? Madison Sun Nov 4 2:00pm-3:00pm (*)Rhiannon Louve, Joyce Reynolds-Ward, Judith R. Conly

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May 22, 2012 · 8:56 am

New stuff at the web page–Bibliography and thoughts about the evolution of a writing career

I finally bit the bullet this past week and started work on a bibliography page for the website.  It’s edifying and somewhat scary to look at a listing of one’s work and realize how much has (and hasn’t) been happening, especially in a writing career like mine which is punctuated by fits and starts.

Fact # 1: From 1992-1998, I wrote a lot of stuff.  Nonfiction stuff.  Most of it was unpaid, in little Portland political zines.  But I’d started writing things for a couple of paying markets except, unfortunately, in one case the editorial perspective changed and the market was no longer interested in a regular column about the Catholic internet.  And then life intervened, in a couple of different forms.  I started making money off the colored stone bead hobby and that started to suck up my serious marketing focus (when I wasn’t busy raising the son and dealing with the beginnings of the educational issues around his high functioning autism).

Jewelry went to pieces after 9/11 because my business was primarily mail-order and online.  Um.  Yeah.  And then, after that, I started intensifying a freelance clerical/bookkeeping business, then went to school to get a teaching certificate.

And all the stuff tied in with that.

Recent sales are primarily fiction, with the exception of four blog posts that, again, appear to have had some editorial changes going on (that combined with another bout of Real Life has put that aspect of writing on temporary hold).  It’s ironic that my first published piece of nonfiction was about my early adventures with the son in special education, dang near twenty years ago.  Gee, twenty years ago who’d have thunk that I’d now be a special ed teacher?

Going back and looking over what I wrote in that six year period, and now looking at what I’m doing now is eye-opening.  It reminds me that yes, I can produce good writing on a variety of subjects and that yes, I can write political stuff.  I’m thinking very hard about reprinting some of those early political articles in e-book form, because while some are dated, others most definitely are not.

Fascinating stuff.  All I need to add now are the Writers of the Future placements and the Anthology Builder contest placement.  And keep the dang thing updated.  I was in a panic because I thought I was going to have to key in all those articles from 1992-1998.  Well, fortunately, I had the document already together because at some point I thought it was a good idea.

Recordkeeping.  It’s not for sissies…and much better done when regularly updated.

Just another bit of writer blathering today.

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May 19, 2012 · 11:46 am

My Miscon 26 schedule

 

MisCon 26 | May 25 - 28, 2012 | Missoula, Montana

So here’s what I’m doing at Miscon 26 (Missoula, Montana) this coming Memorial Day weekend:

  • Fri 4:00 – 4:50 PM, Writers’ Workshop Meet and Greet, Great Hall (Upstairs)
  • Fri 5:00 – 5:50 PM, The X Files: Does it Still Hold Up?, Throne Room (Hotel Lobby of Doom)
  • Break Fri 5:50 – Fri 8:00
  • Fri 8:00 – 8:50 PM, The Effect of Setting on Story, Throne Room (Hotel Lobby of Doom)
  • Break Fri 8:50 – Sat 11:00
  • Sat 11:00 – 12:50 PM, Writers’ Workshop Great Hall, Great Hall (Upstairs)
  • Break Sat 12:50 – Sat 2:00
  • Sat 2:00 – 2:50 PM, Psychology of Evil, Upstairs Programming 1 (259)
  • Break Sat 2:50 – Sat 5:00
  • Sat 5:00 – 5:50 PM, Reading: Joyce Reynolds Ward, Upstairs Programming 3 (261)
  • Break Sat 5:50 – Sun 11:00
  • Sun 11:00 – 11:50 AM, Psychological Issues in Deep Space, Upstairs Programming 1 (259)

I’m looking forward to this.  Besides the writer’s workshop, which has some interesting stories (and I’m finding that I enjoy doing the workshops), I really like my panels.  Add in that I’ve decided that I want to prepare a education/child development/psychological proposal for the 2012 100 Year Starship Symposium call for papers…and I have some panelage that will hopefully give me some food for thought while I develop my proposal.

Now….what to read?  From Gears & Levers or Zombiefied (both anthologies from Montana’s Sky Warrior Press).  Or from River?

Grin.

 

 

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January 29, 2012 · 9:31 pm

Tranquility Freeriders up!

Want to read about skiing on the Moon?

Well, I’ve taken a stab at writing about it.

Tranquility Freeriders from The Netwalk Sequence is now live.

Currently up on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Smashwords.

Check it out.

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January 8, 2012 · 8:09 pm

River guest blogs!

So one of my gracious co-authors in the River anthology, Mary Victoria, is sponsoring a series of guest blogs talking about “Place as Person.”  The first blog, from Joshua Palmatier, is here.

Go and enjoy!

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January 2, 2012 · 4:58 pm

Help me, Goodreads folks!

I’ve activated an account at Goodreads and I’m now trying to inform them that I really truly am a writer…but apparently Goodreads doesn’t want anything to do with me as a writer until I have 50 books listed.

WTF?

I guess that means I need to list a lot of the books that are in my to-be-read pile.  Annoying.  I’d like to upload Netwalk and do the necessarily promo stuff that way…but it’s not letting me do any of it.  So far.  Frustrating Author Program Is Frustrating.

But I’ll figure it out, sooner or later.  Meanwhile, is there something I’m missing about all this?  I tried to upload the ISBN but Goodreads ain’t having it….

Meanwhile, if you’re on Goodreads and feel like friending me…please do so!  And how do other people use their Goodreads account?

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