The Return of the Minion!

My computer is back from the Land of the Dead! Or perhaps the Gate to the Dark Forest?
(Did Martin the Warrior warn you back, Minion? I always loved that mouse...angsty mice, my favorite.)

aaaaanyway.

Viable Paradise SF/F Writer's Workshop
is open for applications!

My "class" (The Elevenses) from '07 is tearing up the road to publication, many selling short stories, a few with book deals including one announced just this past week or so, and quite a few are now in my life both as friends and writing peers. *blows kisses to her VP friends*

I do not hesitate to recommend this to anyone serious about writing. If this is not the year for you to do a week of intensive writing workshopping on Martha's Vineyard--for your own sake, bookmark it and  look it over at the start of every year, to see if you can work it out

Instructors listed:
Elizabeth Bear (matociquala )
Debra Doyle
Steven Gould
James D. Macdonald
Laura J. Mixon
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Teresa Nielsen Hayden
John Scalzi


Critiques are done in two settings--sessions where the other students in small-group format critique your manuscript, with two instructors joining in, and one-on-one sessions with the instructors. You are assigned two of the latter, but the instructors welcome requests, too. They are given enough time to make this work.
The other workshoppers there are all really cool, too.

And here's an Unofficial Guide to Viable Paradise, put together by my VP Roomie topayz4 , for which I still need to concoct an account of my angst-washed incredible time that does not involve embarrassing confessions, but is more comprehensive than my morning-after soliloquy.

Shortly after VP I gave up most soliloquy. Like, talking about craft in a self-congratulating way to myself in my [paper] journal.
I'll let you be the judge of the merits of these developments.


(However, with Minion's return to my side you may expect too many LJ posts as is usual.)

Starting with my first installment of blogging from VP times, onto LJ!
Viable Paradise Journal Extracts, the First