Writer Tamago

As I get permission from them, I'll be grouping other fighting 13'ers' and instructors' responses to VP XIII here, just to show you all why you should drink the kool-aid as well. photo courtesy of Matt Hughes Viable Paradise Viable Paradise Index Official Viable Paradise Site Student Sales Page Bo Balder: VP XIII Viable Paradise, [...]

Whoops. You caught me keeping Viable Paradise hours. I'm on the downhill swing of the cold, and a hot drink is helping me decroupify. I'm only three stories in, but I can unstintingly recommend Christopher Barzak's The Love We Share Without Knowing. Barzak's gentle story cycle will be of particular interest to those of you [...]

Viable Paradise was an intense week of seminars, critiques, one-on-one sessions, and colloquium discussions, with a fair amount of socializing thrown in. Again, I can not encourage writers enough to apply. The worst that could happen is that you are rejected, and if you are a good writer, your chances of being accepted are fairly [...]

(Today was a serious work day. I'm almost caught up from being gone.) When we last left our Pandavas, they had finished their 12 years in the forest, and they were going to spend a 13th year in disguise in the court of Virata. The Pandavas chose some interesting disguises. He-man Arjuna dressed as a [...]

I'm feeling a bit better, although it's time for the return of Dr. Squeaky, apparently. I'm sure my students will giggle much tomorrow. I have sent off the short short stories I wrote at the workshop: Empress Dark went to Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine The Make-over went to Reflection's Edge Mama's Girl went to Clarkesworld [...]

In spite of my generous spirit, I have decided not to share my Vineyard plague with the world at large, and am thus home sick today. Book group, this means I will not be on hand tonight to talk about Lockmora. Even though I really liked it. Have a good time. Back to couch and [...]

I'm home. I'd like to thank Viable Paradise for many things, including a cold, which keeps on giving. So I'm playing today pretty low key, and I'll be back soon. Life is pretty good though. If a little a sniffly. Catherine

The Talking Heads have a song called "Once in a Lifetime." Let me time warp you to 1980. I was a mere 15 years old. And you may ask yourself How do I work this? And you may ask yourself Where is that large automobile? And you may tell yourself This is not my beautiful [...]

Well, that was cool. But I promised to wait until AFTER I'd received all the feedback, didn't I? However, I think one of the instructors just gave me a whole lot of the right kind of work today. Slow down, buckaroo. Someone is still waiting on the troll story. I'll try to tell you tomorrow, [...]

Up and at 'em since dark-o-thirty. I went to bed early last night, and it seems to have been a wise thing to do. I think it's going to help me get through the next few days on a more even keel. What can I tell you about the experience here so far? I liken [...]