Rescheduled seminar. Come play stories with me tomorrow, the 28th, at 1 p.m., PST at the Garden Home Library and community center. I'll be leading a fiction writing seminar on developing the connection between character and powerful meaning in your stories. wccls.bibliocommons.com/events/683b7...

There are still some seats available for the seminar I'll be teaching at the Garden Home Library and Community Center on this coming Tuesday evening. Come on over and play stories with me. wccls.bibliocommons.com/events/68081...

Ran across a fun scifi site on YouTube. Love me some 50s scifi... www.youtube.com/@insights2re...

I'll be leading a writing seminar at the Garden Home Library on May 27th. "Fluency Connecting Character to Meaning" will begin at 6:30 p.m. in person. For those who are interested, here's the link: wccls.bibliocommons.com/events/68081...

I'm doing a two-part Zoom seminar for Rose City Romance Writers. The first part is this Saturday. The program is for their members, but they will allow others for a donation. Details are here: www.rosecityromancewriters.com/meetings-and...

Congratulations to SpaceX on a successful first attempt ever chopstick capture of heavy! Amazing footage from Everyday Astronaut: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIKI...

I'm teaching a six-hour Master Class at the Willamette Writers Conference in two weeks. You must register for the conference to register for the class. As usual, I'll be focusing on how writers can make use of how readers read. web.cvent.com/event/4e68a5...

I'll be leading a free two-hour seminar in Portland at the Garden Home Library Tuesday evening 11 am Saturday morning, 15 seats remain. The subject is “Character and Indirect Dialog.” In-person, only. Register at: wccls.bibliocommons.com/events/6616f...

On the 28th, I'm speaking on the use of indirect dialog (subtext) for the Garden Gnomes du Plume writer's group at the Garden Home Library. Should be a fun one. Here's a link to the calendar. Scroll down to find the 28th. www.gardenhomelibrary.org/events/cal

With great gratitude, I announce that the 2024-25 Fiction Fluency Program has reached greenlight registration at 25% of capacity. The program begins in September. For anyone who is interested, here is a link to the course information: ericwitchey.com/seminars.html

I'm excited to announce that I'll be teaching two seminars at this year's Write on the Sound conference in Edmonds Washington. I love that conference, and I haven't been since before Covid. Woohoo! www.edmondswa.gov/government/d...

For people who want to attend, here's a link to the writeup for the free seminar I'll be teaching at the library this weekend here in Salem, Oregon. willamettewriters.org/event/salem-...

Signs of spring. I woke to birdsong this morning. I ate the last of the local blueberries I froze last summer. Crocuses and daffodils are blooming. For the first time this year, I thought about how long my grass is getting.

My story is featured this week on Flash Fiction Online. "Flirting Implicature in Cooperative Discourse." I'm glad to be sharing the TOC with Christine Hanolsy. www.flashfictiononline.com/article/flir...

Payment and cover credit for "Flirting Implicature in Cooperative Discourse" in the same day from Flash Fiction Online! Also, sharing the cover with my friend Christine Hanolsy. Here's a link to the site. www.flashfictiononline.com

It's good to start the day after Thanksgiving with an offer to buy limited foreign rights for a reprint short story. That was unexpected and a good reason to extend my Thanksgiving celebration.

I've been teaching the Fiction Fluency Seminars for about eight years. Today, I finished revisions to Vol 2 of 3 at over 600 pages of 11pt. Times New Roman single-spaced modules. Total pages is around 1500 Maybe I can join friends for NaNoWriMo. I have an idea... Grin.

Covid wasn't nearly as much fun as the advertisements said it would be. I think I'll complain to management. I expected a lot more pain for a lot longer.

Tis the season for Ghost Stories. Apparently, I'm going to write them no matter what I set out to write. Hooray! I love this time of year!

Pleco update. During water change, I counted 30 live fish from the last batch and discovered that others have made their way inside the filter. The new eggs have begun to hatch. Also, I'll have another short story finished today or Thursday. No. 21 for the year. It's a very good week.

The plecos are at it again. I've just managed to get the last batch on solid food, and the parents gifted me with a new batch. We'll see how it goes.

Did a reading tonight. The Cozy Cosmic anthology of light horror is fun. I loved hearing the authors reading their work. There were poems, recipes, tentacles, revenge cleaning, quarantine cats, and eldritch gods causing insanity.

It's not too soon, right?

Ghost Story Weekend has sold out. I don't know if there is a mailing list or not. wordcrafters.org/ghost-story-...

I'm writer-in-residence for Ghost Story Weekend every year, and this year is no different. We have a few slots left for a fun weekend of fast ghost story writing, reading, and general fun. Boo! wordcrafters.org/ghost-story-...