Friday at the convention was full of interesting panels. “Style or Substance in Fiction” was at Midday. Panellists were: Pat Cadigan, Jack Dann, Ellen Kushner, Ian R. MacLeod, Geoff Ryman and Lisa Tuttle. My Notes – Being precise is a …
WFC Panel: Covers
The second panel I attended at World Fantasy Convention 2013 was “Should You Always Judge a Book by its Cover” at 10am on Friday. Panellists were: Jim Burns, Les Edwards, Bob Eggleton, Jane Frank and John Picacio. My Notes – …
WFC Panel: Writing Historical Fantasy
The first panel I attended at World Fantasy Convention 2013 was “Writing Historical Fantasy” at 3pm on Thursday. Panellists were: Aidan Harte, Helen Marshall, Sophia McDougall, Tim Powers, Mark Charan Newton & Kari Sperring. My Notes Tim Powers said “I …
Career Choice: Writer
Having taken three days off from my day-job to attend the convention, I went back to work feeling a bit out of place. For four days I was a “professional writer”, whose only duty was to read, write, sign things, …
NaNoWriMo: Half-Way Through
I’ve completed NaNoWriMo four times. Last year I even reached 80,000 words of half-decent story in 27 days. You’d think that might mean I’ve learnt a lot about writing and word counts, particularly something more than “it’s good to write …
WFC13 – A Round-Up
Because I’m away this weekend, and I’m still writing up all of my experiences from WFC, but I want to share more about the convention, I figured a little round-up might be useful. I spent a lot of time trying …