His annual lecture-during which he explains that making plots is like building models, devising stage magic tricks, playing positional chess, and baking a Key Lime Pie-is brilliant, a masterful performance, packed so full of useful insights that students are still unpacking it months and years later.
The Evil Overlord Devises a Plot is something I put together for a VP colloquium on “Stupid Plot Tricks.” It was a departure for me to be talking about plot at all. We’re a tad behind on processing applications this year. If you blew the application deadline, you could probably still throw an e-text story at us and we’d absentmindedly consider it along with the rest. This week, on the other hand, is when the Secret Masters of VP assess applications. Some photos from last year.) This year it runs from 29 September through 05 October, and the other teachers are Patrick, Jim Macdonald and Debra Doyle, Steve Gould, and James Patrick Kelly. (Some student reports from previous years.
It’s an intensive week-long SF & fantasy writers’ workshop held on Martha’s Vineyard.
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