a plug!

Just a quick note that Viable Paradise, a week-long writer's workshop on Martha's Vineyard, is still open for applications. I attended two years ago and though it sounds hokey to say that it was a lifechanging experience, it truly was. Enough so that I've volunteered to be a helper/gopher/cook this year.

Instructors are Patrick & Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Jim Macdonald & Debra Doyle, Steven Gould and Laura J. Mixon, Cory Doctorow, and Elizabeth Bear. All of these are people who know a hell of a lot more, both individually and collectively, about writing and the publishing business, than any other group of people I've met. Plus, they're all fun to spend time with.

And there's beaches. And glow-in-the-dark jellyfish. And the stars at night are unbelievable.

You know you wanna do it (-:

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2000+ words added today, chapter 5 finished (short chapter). Now to figure out what happens in chapter 6.

Much sadness about Virginia Tech, especially as the rumor is that one of the victims was the son of SF author Michael Bishop. )-: You'd think we had enough senseless tragedy in this world already without feeling the need to make more of them on purpose.