While attending LTUE this week I had the pleasure of attending an academic presentation by Dave Doering, the founder of that excellent writing symposium. He described himself as a fan historian, and quipped that when he started LTUE at BYU, he felt like a “science fiction missionary.” As he prepared to deliver the presentation, I... Continue Reading →
Additional Classes
LTUE - Life, The Universe, & Everything - is a symposium in Utah every February by writers for writers. Unlike Comic Cons where panels are likely to on costuming, and literary cons where the panels are by authors for readers, LTUE panels cover things like "writing action" and "balancing the books", and "boring beginnings" and... Continue Reading →
LibertyCon AAR and More
Real Life has intruded on the scheduled poster here in a most delightful way. He's greeting his third child into the world properly. So since the blog goes on, even when family is coming first, I offered to step in with a few words. Community is grand. It's a beautiful thing. I came home from... Continue Reading →
Life, the Universe, and Everything
This is Cedar, reporting in from Provo, Utah, where I am attending the rather scholarly LTUE. Seriously now, I have been told that had I know beforehand, I could have gotten some sort of college credit/points for attending this. Ah well... as a student, I've been madly trying to cram homework in around the crevices... Continue Reading →