• The Pikes Peak Writers Conference–2019

    The Pikes Peak Writers Conference for 2019, held yearly in Colorado Springs, was last weekend, May 3-5, 2019.  Here’s a few impressions and takeaways I gleaned from the conference.  Not comprehensive by any means. Several speakers at the sessions I attended used the acronym “GMC” in their talks.  This stands for “Goal/Motivation/Conflict,” three factors totally…

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  • Sci-fi Worldbuilding: Anthropology

    I just got back from the 2018 edition of the Pike’s Peak Writers Conference, (#PPWC2018) and had a great time.  As usual.  Lots of good sessions on many different aspects of writing, and had a chance to pitch my first sci-fi novel to an editor.  He asked for the first 50 pages, which, by the…

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  • Pike’s Peak Meeting, 2016

    Well, I’m back from the 2016 edition of the Pike’s Peak Writers Conference which was held in Colorado Springs around the middle of April.  Always a good meeting.  Plenty of good workshops to attend, speakers to hear, and people to talk to.  I usually have something to say in this venue about one or more of…

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