Archive for the ‘The SFWA Blog’ Category

Guest Post: Just One Sentence at a Time:
Brandvold, Monahan, & Piccirilli on Writing Full-time

There is no typical day when you freelance because you never know what’s coming your way. I do, however, go to my home office every morning about 8:30 and work on something until about 5:30. It’s different from a traditional day job because I can work from home and don’t have to commute. If I don’t have any deadlines looming, I can work on what I feel like working on, which is great when you’re creative juices are flowing.

An Interview with Norman Spinrad, Anarchist

I’ve always been interested in dreams, in the dreamtime, what are they, what is it? The Dreamtime, after all, is both real and fantasy. We all experience it, in that sense it is definitely “real.” But the dreams we experience are “fantasies.”

Giraffes, Refrigerators, and Worldbuilding

Pull out your tool belt, roll up your sleeves, and do a little home improvement. Buy a 4’x8′ panel of white laminate and mount it on your office wall. Presto! You’ve got yourself a massive whiteboard for a fraction of the price.

Andre Norton Project

Scott Brown, documentary film producer, will be at DragonCon in Atlanta from Thursday through Monday. He aims to collect interviews from authors who knew or worked with Andre Norton.