NorWesCon

I've been needing to get back to the topic of writing. Tomorrow I'm headed out to NorWesCon and that gives me the perfect excuse. NorWesCon is a SciFi/Fantasy convention that happens April 5-8 in SeaTac, WA. A group I helped found, Northwest Independent Writers Association (NIWA), will be selling our books in the dealer room. We'll also have a fan table in the lobby, which is where I'll be spending much of my weekend I bet. This is a great convention and a whole lot of fun. I'd love to see all of you there.

On the topic of writing: here are some resources that writers should check out.
1) go to about.com and sign up for the fiction writing newsletter. It's chock full of cool stuff like this article about writing fast. It's important to write as fast and as much as you can because there really isn't the difference in quality that you imagine there will be. You're going to fix it all in the revision anyway.

2) on the topic of speed: National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, is an event put on by the office of letters and light. Founder Chris Baty has started a movement of writing 50k words in the month of November. April is script frenzy, which is also worth checking out.