Nancy's Blog

Yesterday I taught an all-day workshop at Hugo House in Seattle. With set-up, lunch, bio-breaks, and post-mortem evaluations, such events ru...

Recently I have been reading books about writing fiction (this fit takes me every so often, usually when I'm about to teach a workshop)....

I am in Seattle, partly because on Sunday I am teaching an all-day, intensive writing seminar ("Planning Your Novel") at Hugo Hous...

Last night I was reading Samuel Delany's book About Writing , and I came across this provocative sentence: "In one way or another, ...

My novella "The Erdmann Nexus" has been nominated for a Hugo. Naturally, this pleases me enormously. However, I do not expect to...

For the past several days I've been absorbed in the non-fiction book The Black Swan , by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. This book, which had be...

I am struggling with a story. Nothing terribly new in that, except in this case, the struggle is taking place on alien territory. Bill Scha...