Creating New Mythology From Hidden History: A DisConIII Panel

Sharing notes from DisConIII/WorldCon

– Where to find histories that weren’t in your textbooks
– Ways to Contextualize histories
– Who gets to use the histories and tales
and
-Ways to use these ‘hidden histories’ in your writing

Finding The Authorial Voice: A DisConIII Panel

When you’re looking to get published, people sure talk a lot about your ‘voice’. But what exactly is it? And how can you change yours?

What authors do you admire? Which ones do you think you sound similar to?

Morgan’s 2022 Resolutions

Last year was a year of drafting, revision, querying, and networking.

This year? The goal is publication! Yet again, I need to refocus on what will get me there.

WorldCon 2021

A rambling hour-by-hour account of my WorldCon experience and recovery. Say hi if you were there (or not. I like ‘hi’s)!

Making The Most of A Virtual Convention

I’ve worked a bunch of them since the pandemic started, and since it seems virtual or hybrid conventions are here to stay, here are my top tips for getting the most out of them.

Writing / Illustrating Comics!

The panel promised, “learn the ins and outs of what goes into creating a great comic book!”

While I’m not an artist, and have never been drawn to creating graphic novels, I’m a huge fan of web comics and fan of comics. So, I had to hit this panel.
Here are the tips they shared.

A Writer’s Two Worlds

In the dream world, we’d sit in front of notebooks and words would flow to the pages, never needing edits or revisions, and nothing would ever interrupt us.

Unfortunately, this is the real world. Here are tips on managing to get your writing in, and ways to support your writing.

Writing with Meisner

I usually don’t write up workshops. They’re run by one single person, and the content is theirs. But, I *have* to gush about the titular workshop with Ian Kirkpatrick at Imaginarium2021.

It described MY process.

Character Creation

While many character creation discussions revolve around the external bits — names, physical attributes, social settings, here are 8 techniques for getting to know who your character is as a person.