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bear by san

we'll be waiting for the night to come

mood: bouncy bouncy
music: Yes - City of Love / The Mortal Coil - The Jeweller
My big announcement of the day, as long as I'm spamming livejournal, is that I got a lovely email today asking if I was by any chance available to pinch hit for Jim Kelly, a habitual instructor at Viable Paradise, who will not be able to make it for 2007. Viable Paradise, if you didn't know, is a week-long workshop for speculative fiction novel writers seeking to improve their skills.

My reaction was something like: Let me get this straight.

You want me to go to Martha's Vinyard in October for a week and hang around with writers?

...twist my arm.

So, um. I'll be one of the instructors at VP this year. Along with a bunch of cooler people.

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Posted on Dec. 4th, 2006 at 09:49 pm | | Leave a comment | 26 comments | | Flag

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ellen_fremedon

Huzzah! VP was a fantastic experience for me, and the instructors looked like they were having just as much fun as the students. Possibly even more so *g*.
Posted on Dec. 5th, 2006 03:00 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

avocadovpx

Congrats on the teaching gig! I think you'll enjoy VP a lot.

This past year, the instructors allegedly posed for individual photos wearing Cory Doctorow's glasses. (The photos haven't surfaced. Yet.) I nominate 2007 as the year of Bear's hat.

Were you assigned JPK's previous lecture topic, 10 Stupid Plot Tricks, or are the lectures still to be negotiated?
Posted on Dec. 5th, 2006 03:37 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

matociquala

I have no been assigned a lecture topic yet.*g*
Posted on Dec. 5th, 2006 03:41 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

aviatrix18

I can neither confirm nor deny the existance of photographs of Instructors wearing Cory Doctorow's glasses.

Welcome aboard, though
Posted on Dec. 5th, 2006 06:04 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

redplum

Well shit. That pretty much seals it. If I don't wind up in the UK this summer, I'm applying to VP.
Posted on Dec. 5th, 2006 03:39 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

matociquala

the horror!
Posted on Dec. 5th, 2006 05:02 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

redplum

You...writers, with your blogs and your helpful advice and your workshops. One would think you'd settle for writing books, but nooo. How am I supposed to feel properly isolated and misunderstood with all this encouragement? God!
Posted on Dec. 5th, 2006 05:28 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

dsgood

Congratulations!
Posted on Dec. 5th, 2006 03:40 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

charmingbillie

This is seriously cool. Congratulations and enjoy!
Posted on Dec. 5th, 2006 04:19 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

sartorias

Coolness!
Posted on Dec. 5th, 2006 05:07 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

blackaire

How neat! Congratulations. (And can I just mention that once I find a great workshop literally 20 minutes by ferry from my old home town, I've moved clear across the country and must sit here pining while all you happy workshoppers gallivant off to improve your craft? Bollocks.)
Posted on Dec. 5th, 2006 08:28 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

matociquala

Oh, it's always a good excuse to come back to new england!
Posted on Dec. 5th, 2006 02:36 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

aitchellsee

Couldn't happen to a cooler Bear! (Have you got your ice-floe picked out yet?)
Posted on Dec. 5th, 2006 08:30 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

eljaydaly

Oh my GOD. That's so awesome. Congratulations!

Now I want to apply to attend again.
Posted on Dec. 5th, 2006 09:30 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

mac_stone

Congrats! You'll be terrific, and it really is pretty wonderful. And there are blackmail pictures all over flickr, to prove it.
Posted on Dec. 5th, 2006 10:01 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

matociquala

Once they're on flickr, is it much use for blackmail anymore.
Posted on Dec. 5th, 2006 02:37 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

mac_stone

details, details.
Posted on Dec. 5th, 2006 05:12 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

niamh_sage

That sounds blooming marvellous :D
Posted on Dec. 5th, 2006 12:17 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

buymeaclue

Hey, congrats!
Posted on Dec. 5th, 2006 01:04 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

matociquala

thank you!
Posted on Dec. 5th, 2006 02:38 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

fidelioscabinet

Cool!
Um, should we worry about reports next October of elderly pickup trucks being driven around the Vineyard with workshoppers playing Thing in the bed?
Posted on Dec. 5th, 2006 03:14 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

matociquala

*g* Nah, the car ferry costs wayyyy too much.
Posted on Dec. 5th, 2006 03:19 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

slithytove

Woo!
Posted on Dec. 5th, 2006 04:28 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

sleary

Oh, congrats! VP is just about as much fun as you can cram into one inn in a week.

...with your clothes on.

...mostly.
Posted on Dec. 5th, 2006 11:56 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

lenora_rose

Aaaargh!

Yanno, I never thought I'd regret getting into VPIX. But then this year they ahd the ten-year reunion when I couldn't possibly make it, and now...

Gah.
Posted on Dec. 6th, 2006 05:17 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

safewrite

That's awesome!
Posted on Dec. 6th, 2006 01:42 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply