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KT WAGNER
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4th Annual Ghost Story (or whatever you are working on) Writing Retreat, Loon Lake, November 2018
Mark your calendar for November 21st to 23rd, 2018 (Wednesday at 3pm through Friday at 1pm) Golden Ears Writers is hosting its fourth annual Ghost Story Writing Retreat at Loon Lake Lodge, British Columbia. (Ghost-story-writing is the theme, not a requirement. During...
September IWSG: Writing Bizarro
September 2017 Insecure Writers Support Group Question: Have you ever surprised yourself with your writing? For example, by trying a new genre you didn't think you'd be comfortable in? Short answer, yes. Slightly longer answer. Writing short stories, I try on...
IWSG August: What are your pet peeves when reading, writing or editing?
It's the first Wednesday of the month and time for another Insecure Writers' Support Group post. This month's question is not one I dwell on a lot. For fiction writers in particular, angst and insecurity come with the territory and spending too much time thinking...
Website Issues
Apologies to anyone who followed a link to one or more of my recent blog posts (including ISWG posts 🙁 ). A server upgrade with my website hosting service resulted in the loss of the posts, and, unfortunately, there is no backup copy. Hopefully, this is a one...
May IWSG: The Horror Writers Association and StokerCon2017
Last weekend I flew down to Los Angeles, California and made my way to The Queen Mary in Long Beach for StokerCon 2017 and the Bram Stoker Awards. It was my first time attending the annual HWA (Horror Writers Association) convention. I'm an affiliate...
April IWSG – Writing Retreats, Conferences, Conventions and Festivals
I'm skipping the IWSG question this month in favour of sharing my thoughts on getting out of the writer's cave and interacting with like-minded folk. What are the benefits and the costs? Well, costs are pretty straight forward - money and time - though if you can...
Golden Ears Writers – Maple Ridge, B.C.
For several years, I had to travel outside of my home city to find a writing community. The situation prompted me to explore ways to connect with and bring together local writers. For my first effort, I advertised through the local library for fellow writers...
IWSG – Have you ever pulled out a really old story and reworked it?
Insecure Writer's Support Group, March Question: Have you ever pulled out a really old story and reworked it? Did it work out? Given that I only delved into fiction writing about six years ago, I don't have any stories that are "really old". For me, this question also...
After the Happily Ever After anthology
My story, 3-D Monarch, is part of new anthology edited by Anthony S. Buoni and Alisha Costanzo of Transmundane Press. At 522 pages, it's a substantial volume of fractured fairy tales. Claudia Quint posted an interview with me on her blog, After Happily Ever After: KT...