http://www.herojourneys.com A Writer's Path Toward Publication Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:01:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I had my classes do a lightning write activity this week, and I realized that I never shared the one I participated in at the Codex retreat (CoWW). For this activity, you need a group (a group of 6 works pretty well). Each person has about a minute to write the ... http://www.herojourneys.com/2008/10/07/writing/lightning-write/ After taking an unintentional break from this short story that I started at CoWW, I've come back to it within the past couple weeks (first, because it gave me something fun to do during class when I had the students doing peer reviews of each other's papers; and second, because ... http://www.herojourneys.com/2008/09/26/path/restarting-treelove/ I just got back from teaching my Writing for Digital Media class, and I went through Orson Scott Card's 1001 ideas in an hour with them. It worked out really well. I'm not nearly as good as OSC at pulling more and more ideas out, but we came up with ... http://www.herojourneys.com/2008/09/22/writing/1001-ideas/ A couple weeks ago, I had my two composition classes do the old describe the steps for how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich exercise. It went very well, especially in the early morning class (they are just better, more engaged students overall). We did it because we were talking ... http://www.herojourneys.com/2008/09/19/lessons/audience/peanut-butter-and-jelly/ Codex Writer's Workshop. I anticipated this event for a long time. The first few days were for critiques of novels and short stories, as well as some class sessions on writing and being a writer. We had the famous Ellen Datlow critique our short stories. She was very insightful and gave lots ... http://www.herojourneys.com/2008/07/28/hero-journeys/events/coww/ Well, I got the story revised (a couple months ago ), and I thought it would be useful to talk about how I did it. But first, I think you need a little background on how I wrote it in the first place. I wrote the story as part of Orson ... http://www.herojourneys.com/2008/07/16/path/how-i-revised-transfer-loss/ In May, I worked on updating and fixing (hopefully) the story I wrote at boot camp. http://www.herojourneys.com/2008/06/02/path/revising-boot-camp-story/ I have been doing better at keeping up with doing book reviews than I have with doing any actual posting here, but I am trying to change that a bit, especially now that I am done teaching at UVSC. I have decided that I am going to change around how I ... http://www.herojourneys.com/2008/05/16/review/book-reviews/ I was lucky enough to get both these great writers to come to my Pack Meeting this last week. It was a great event. Jessica emailed me the next day and said she had a great time, and Brandon stayed so long he missed his writing group meeting. We had about 50 people ... http://www.herojourneys.com/2008/04/26/writers/brandon-sanderson-and-jessica-day-george/ I got this email from Edmund, and wanted to share. IGMS is a great online magazine with incredible stories (one of my favorites so far is Tabloid Reporter to the Stars): To Readers of Science Fiction and Fantasy everywhere, When you have something great, you want everyone to know. So you tell ... http://www.herojourneys.com/2008/02/02/writers/igms/