Do you want to meet authors and learn how to develop and write stories?

Then you want to be in Provo, Utah this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, February 11-13th, and attend Life, The Universe & Everything, the annual science fiction and fantasy writing conference. (I think students get in free.) If you live within a reasonable driving distance (I’m 2.5 hours away and consider that reasonable), then you should

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Awful Intent Update: The power of having the electric ladies read to you

Everyone says you cannot copyedit your own work. You’re an idiot if you try. Because you’re mind auto-corrects eorrs, and fills in missing punctuation or words like “of” “the” and “a”.  And often doesn’t care or know the house rules for capitalization. Etc. (Did you catch all the errors in that paragraph?) Except the brains

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The Secret to Getting Great Story Ideas

Last week I spent a lovely day with the League of Utah Writers at their annual writing conference. I presented “The Secret to Getting Great Story Ideas” which was about how to stop generating great story ideas by accident and start generating them on purpose, whenever you need them. I promised the folks I’d post

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