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Posted by Karl on Thursday October 16, @09:41PM
I'll be in Montreal on Saturday, November 8, 2002, to attend ConCept 2003. The convention will be held at the Days Inn in downtown Montreal; details can be found on the con's website.
Other guests at the convention include:
Author Guest of Honour Dave Duncan: Mr. Duncan won the 1990 Aurora Award, Best Novel, for West of January. He is internationally acclaimed for many series, including The King’s Blades and A Handful of Men, as well as many stand-alone novels. His next book will be released in Fall 2003.
Artist Guest of Honour Ted Nasmith: Mr. Nasmith is best known as the official artist for the 2002, 2003, and 2004 The Lord of the Rings calendars which coincide with the theatrical release of each movie instalment.
Artist Guest of Honour Heidi Taillefer: Ms. Taillefer artwork inspired Le Cirque du Soleil’s Dralion production. Her artwork is suffused with surreal imagery – the human combining with the machine, the mammal merging with the reptilian, the real becoming the mythical.
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A vista at Hart House Farm, a University of Toronto estate where I go on writing retreats.
This is one of the quarry ponds, which has a Finnish-style log sauna at the top of the
dock.
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My Schedule
by Karl on Tuesday November 04, @08:21AM
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Here's my confirmed activities, although I think there's going to be more that I don't know about yet:
- 2-3 Signing in Dealers' Room
- 4-5 Writers' Block: The Art and Craft of Writing
- 8-9 Heated Debate: Global Warming
Hope to see you there!
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Re: Montreal in November
by JS Faubert on Monday November 17, @07:41AM
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Greetings:
I wasn't able to meet you in Montreal.
But I was able to buy an autographed copy of your book at Chapters, downtown Montreal.
I would like to know more about how you construct your novels: Do you write in scenes? How do you structure your novel? Do you plan your novel before you start to write the first chapter?
Many thanks, and continue your good work!
Jean-Stephane
(Montreal)
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Writing
by Karl on Monday November 17, @03:18PM
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That's a pretty tall order! Writing novels isn't the sort of thing you can explain in a few sentences. --That's why I wrote The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing SF with Cory Doctorow. (How's that for a blatant plug!) But seriously, yes, I do plan and outline my novels, and they are done in a multiple-act structure (which you'll see if you crack any of them open). But the plan and outline are flexible and change as I go. Similarly, the demands of each novel are different and hence I would cheerfully throw out any particular technique if it wasn't appropriate for the project at hand.
Not sure what you mean by "writing in scenes", so I can't answer that one.
Basically, a novel is a complex construction project. Like any construction project, it will involve various blueprints, plans, a skeleton, scaffolding of various sorts etc. But none of these things constitute some kind of secret key to the writing process. All are expendable. If you are interested in writing a novel yourself, my advice is simply to do it, by whatever means works. In the end, the system that works for you is the best system.
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