Writers’ Brunch 8.22.26

Another enjoyable midday gathering put on by Michael Swanwick and Marianne Porter, and including in this round Samuel R. Delany on your left, then Tim Burke, Michael Swanwick, Stephanie Feldman, Sally Wiener Grotta, and Darrell Schweitzer. And of course Marianne as chef, and me safely hidden behind the camera. The Philadelphia Writers’ Brunch carries on a tradition begun by the late Tom Purdom.
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A NINC Interview on “Beginnings, Middles, & Ends”

…In which everything some things you wanted to know about writing Beginnings,  Middles, and Endings of your Novels and  Short Stories is revealed. Don’t take my word for it, take Michele Dunaway’s as she leads the discussion.
Watch and listen here: NOVELISTS, INC.

Back in Time, Illustratively Speaking

Sherman’s set the Wayback Machine for the 1960s, when I gravitated into art school, only to suffer–in my second year–a catastrophic apartment fire that wiped out 100% of the charcoal drawings and oil paintings I’d done in those two years (but not, amazingly, my first attempt at a short story, written for a night class I was taking). It’s only recently that I’ve started looking back at some of that illustration work (most of what I drew or painted fits that category). So I’m thinking maybe I’ll post a few of the survivors just for shits and giggles, starting with this Disney Fantasia-inspired technical pen rendition of Chernobog…because I always go for the light subjects.
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Chernobog, from "Night on Bald Mountain" sequence of Disney's Fantasia