As some of you might know, I'm two weeks into the 10 week Modern Poetry course from UPenn, brought to us by the good folks at Coursera. This week, they tried something I've not seen yet in one of these courses: the first of their weekly life webinars. It took the same format - in this case a panel of an instructor and four graduate students discussing a poem, and opened it up to questions from the online student body via several avenues:1 - A student...
Thursday, 27 September 2012
Friday, 14 September 2012
Back to Brooklyn - an evening with the Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers
Posted on 05:21 by Unknown

I'm reviving my Flash Friday today with a quick piece I wrote for last night's BSFW meeting. Who's BSFW? We're a writing critique/support/social group convening twice monthly in a strange and wondrous land known as Brooklyn. The third Thursday each month is short story critiques, and novels (cut into digestable chunks) on Sundays. As a short fiction writer myself, I particularly enjoy the Thursday meetings. In addition to some much-appreciated...
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Back to School (or why no book reviews lately?)
Posted on 02:29 by Unknown
I've talked about AV, about writing, and about reading on here, but since April's review of Mary Robinette Kowal's Glamour in Glass there have been no new book reviews. There've been posts about my various AV training endeavors (with Crestron, Extron, and a trip way out west to meet the good people at Biamp), but that's just stuff; how things work and how to do them rather than stories, the best of which illuminate something deeper in the human condition....
Saturday, 1 September 2012
Guest Post - Feedback - Taking It - Giving It - Enjoying It
Posted on 04:11 by Unknown
Hi everyone! Today we have something a a treat: a guest-post from the talented author Sophie Duncan. Thanks for visiting, Sophie! Thanks to Leonard for hosting me today.Feedback - Taking It - Giving It - Enjoying ItO feedback, glorious and treacherous love of my life. Okay, so maybe that was a bit melodramatic, but any writer who says they don't love feedback is telling fibs. Any writer who says they aren't nervous about feedback is also probably...
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