Bright & Dark

Dean Wesley Smith has announced a list of amazing 2010 Oregon Writers Network workshops.

This stuff is invaluable. Not to be missed.

I will be making a superhuman effort to get to several of them, including a couple of novel workshops and mystery structure, which I am particularly excited about.

Never written a mystery, although I like to read them. What makes me all happy is the opportunity to learn from an award-winning master of the form (Kristine Kathryn Rusch) about how to write them. Because even if I don’t start out angling for a mystery and am instead, say, working on a YA science fiction novel, it’s amazing how a mystery will pop up and thread its way into the story. So much fun.

I can hardly wait.