The contributors read and annotate all the stories. No one can attend or comment who does not bring a story. Attendees bring short manuscripts, with enough copies for everyone present. The general course of action in the modern SF workshop (known as the “Milford system”) goes as follows. No one has a Copyright on talent, desire, or enthusiasm. Like a bad rock band, an SF-writer’s workshop can be set up in any vacant garage by any group of spotty enthusiasts with nothingīetter to occupy their time. Thanks to the seminal efforts of Robin Wilson, would-be sf writers can receive actual academic credit for this experience.īut the workshopping experience does not require any shepherding by experts.
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In science fiction’s best-known workshop, Clarion, would-be writers are wrenched from home and hearth and pitilessly blitzed for six weeks by professional SF writers, who serve as creative-writing gurus. Workshops come in many varieties - regional and national, amateur and professional, formal and frazzled.
In many cases the answer is science fiction workshops. They rarely ask where society gets its science fiction writers. People often ask where science fiction writers get their ideas. Particular help for this project was provided by Bruce Sterling and the other regulars of the Turkey City Workshop in Austin, Texas. Those identified with a particular writer are acknowledged in parentheses at the end of the entry.
The terms here were generally developed over a period of many years in many workshops. This guide is intended to save workshop participants from having to “reinvent the wheel” (see section 3) at every session. Having an accurate and descriptive critical term for a common SF problem makes it easier to recognize and discuss.
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This manual is intended to focus on the special needs of the science fiction workshop. NOT COPYRIGHTED Introduction by Lewis Shiner Turkey City Lexicon – A Primer for SF Workshops SFWA Middle Grade and Young Adult Writers.Operating Policies and Procedures (OPPM).
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