CapClave Programming

[lagilman]

for them as will be in the DC area next weekend, here's where you can stalk me...

Saturday 11AM: Writing Non-Human Characters.
It's difficult for humans to think past the reality of how we think sufficiently to create something that's more of an alien than an athropomorphized Gila monster or a psychic tarantula. How do we make non-human characters alive but not weird or so cliched that readers begin yawning as soon as they're introduced?
(Laura Anne Gilman, Edward Lerner, Benjamin Rosenblum, and John C. Wright.)

Saturday 1pm: First Sentence, First Paragraph: What Does It Take To Grab You?
Great first sentences, to work, have to be sneaky or elegant. But great first sentences are rare. So what qualities does a novel or story have to have to make you keep reading beyond that first sentence or first paragraph?
Keith R. A. DeCandido, Gregory Frost, and Laura Anne Gilman

Saturday: 2:30 PM Reading: Laura Anne Gilman (duh...)

Sunday 10AM: Writing Short Shorts.
Laura Anne Gilman, Benjamin Rosenblum, and Michael Swanwick.


And of course, kradical, terri_osborne and I will be holding court nightly in the bar...