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Twenty Students Gather for 1998 Odyssey into Writing Until Odyssey, I’d read many books about writing fiction, and thought I understood the fundamentals, but now I have an infinitely better grasp of the practice of these fundamentals and much more confidence that I can apply them methodically and intelligently to Read more…
Odyssey Designed as a literary boot-camp, Odyssey is a six-week long intensive writing program taught by an incredibly talented writer and former editor, Jeanne Cavelos in New Hampshire. Odyssey draws talent from all around the United States and abroad, as guest lecturers and a “writer-in-residence” help make the writing conference Read more…
Clarion vs. Odyssey This essay was originally published in Speculations, March 2000, issue #32. Morgan graduated from Clarion West 1993 and Odyssey 1998. His short story “Flashed Shadows” (Aboriginal SF, Fall 1996, issue #52) won second place in the Best Soft SF Contest for 1996. He currently works on cutting edge Read more…
A Watershed Experience When I arrived at Odyssey in 1998, I was in a rut. I knew my writing wasn’t all it could be, but I had no clue how to improve. In the final week of the workshop, Jeanne said one thing to me that changed my writing forever: Read more…
A Watershed Experience For me, Odyssey was more than just worthwhile; it was a watershed experience. Calibration was its first function for me. Before I went, I’m embarrassed to say, I thought I was a good writer needing only a little polish. Well, I wasn’t. I did have strengths: ideas, Read more…
Odyssey 2000: Experience of a Workshop The best part of the year 2000 was my trip to Manchester, New Hampshire for the intense- and I do mean intense- six-week writing workshop, Odyssey. I’ve never been to a workshop that goes into such thorough study of the elements of fiction and Read more…
Notes from the Odyssey Workshop A Blue Ear Books Special series of articles by James Hall, graduate of Odyssey 2001, reprinted from Blueear.com What is Genre Fiction? My first visit to Manchester, New Hampshire, home of the Odyssey Workshop, reveals an old city recreating itself anew. Driving through this city Read more…
Sculpting with Words: My Odyssey Experience Elaine Isaak writes knowledge-inspired adventure fiction including The Dark Apostle series about medieval surgery (as E.C. Ambrose), The Singer’s Legacy fantasy series (as Elaine Isaak), and the Bone Guard international thrillers (as E. Chris Ambrose). Find out more at RocinanteBooks.com The Odyssey workshop, and Read more…
Odyssey: A Never-Ending Experience I’d written a novel. I’d gotten an agent. I thought I was set. Unfortunately, every editor who read that first novel passed on it. “Too much fantasy to sell as a romance.” “Too much romance to sell as a fantasy.” And the blunt “Not for us” Read more…
Odyssey: A Step on the Journey I majored in Creative Writing in college, primarily to get credit for something I spent my time doing anyway: writing stories. But the college workshop experience wasn’t helpful for me as a genre writer. I wasn’t writing what I wanted to write, and so Read more…