Category Archive for: ‘Viable Paradise’

• Work weird

  There’s something harder than average about returning to work after a week-long writer’s workshop. My mind is still thinking about ancient Egypt, robot monsters, the future of aliens in San Francisco, and Jax’s rendition of Henry V with a Texas accent (it worked!). It’s very …

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• Martha’s VP photos

  Can be found here.

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• Andrew’s VP comments

  Can be found here. Andrew, I still want to read that giant robot story too.

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• TNH’s VP comments

  I just found Teresa Nielsen Hayden’s blog comments on VP. My personal favorite is a comment about the previously-mentioned (by Your Humble Blogger) game of Thing: As for my supposed ruthlessness, I acknowledge that I behaved wickedly in one game of Thing; but when you’re …

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• Restaurant Gar

  It’s tiring having to tell people all the time, “No, I can’t have that, it’s probably got wheat in it.” Bread they understand, pasta they sometimes do, but items such as Rice Dream (a rice milk), they’re less likely to. Nor do most people have …

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• VP: Wednesday

  Today’s group grope consisted of two shorts from Geoff. One of them I especially liked, despite the bobbles in the piece. It really had a mythic feel to it and I really liked the premise. Suffice to say it was a story that I read, …

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• VP: Tuesday

  The morning started with a group grope: I was on the chopping block. My group consisted of Jim MacDonald, Valerie, and Anna Feruglio Dal Dan, who came all the way from Italy. She’d been out ever since Worldcon. It was great having some people who …

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• VP: First Official Day, Monday

  The first group of one-on-ones meets at 9:00 a.m., but fortunately someome had pity for this jet-lagged Californian. I got a reprieve until Jim’s lecture on plotting at 10 a.m. While it was substantively similar to the lecture I’d heard two years before, some of …

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• Mafia and Thing

  Sunday night, the night before the official start of Viable Paradise, there’s a large welcome dinner, a round of introductions, some idle time to chat, and then the ritual games of Mafia and/or Thing, designed to get people to remember each other. During the idle …

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• Getting to Martha’s Vineyard, part 2

  Fortunately, this trip was much less eventful than my previous escapade. Having remembered the part about starving, I packed some gluten-free quiche (aka “Impossible Ham and Cheese Pie” from one of the Bob’s Red Mill gluten-free flour packages) inside a bag that contained some plastic …

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