Tomorrow, I’ll be heading up to Nine Worlds Geekfest at Heathrow, London. I’ve posted about conventions before – blogging about what I wish I’d known for my first convention and five tips from my second convention. It’s been particularly interesting attending a different convention …
Weekend WIP #10: Returning to Lists
Throughout my blogging experience (since 2006) I’ve toyed with a weekly or fortnightly “updates” post. Partly to share what I’m doing — to give a “behind-the-scenes” aspect — but also to get feedback, to commiserate with others and to hold me …
FC14 Panel: Editing Dreams and Editor Nightmares
Final panel of the final day. After the Worldbuilding workshop, a panel about editing moved into the room. My Notes – The panel discussed the difference between a structural edit (do the characters and world building hold together?), a line …
FC14 Panel: Worldbuilding Workshop
10am Sunday morning brought us a workshop led by Tom Pollock and Kate Elliot, focused on worldbuilding. Much like at WFC13, the worldbuilding panel was the one I wrote the most notes on. My Notes – Storytelling is worldbuilding: the …
FC14 Panel: She’s Not Heavy, She’s My Sister
The final panel of the day, after a quick lunch, focused on the roles of female characters and their relationships. I recognised a writer from WFC13, who was appearing on the panel, and had a chat with her before it began. Panellists were: …
FC14 Panel: Gentleman Thieves, Loveable Pirates and Sex(y) Tricksters
*The actual programme said “sex tricksters”, and thus this is how I shall forever refer to it. Third panel of day one: and one I don’t feel I need to introduce. It was essentially “These people (see title); Why do …