The next General Meeting, on 18 March, will be a Special General Meeting. At the AGM in October 2014, the Committee asked the membership to vote on a proposal to amend the rules to allow the CSFG to be able confer life memberships. The membership voted to approve the proposal [...]
President Leife Shallcross kicks off the 2015 discussions with some musing on some CSFG'ers recent encounter with a literary hero and how reading is a vital ingredient of writing. This essay is crossposted from Leife's website. I’ve had quite a literary week. On Monday I went to see the entertaining [...]
Did you guys even realise it was 2015 already? FEBRUARY 2015. That’s only 320 days away from 2016. AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE SO FAR?!?! If the answer is ‘Not as much as I’d like’, then our February meeting is for you. (If the answer isn’t that, you should still [...]
by Leife Shallcross (writing at leifeshallcross.wordpress.com) On Wednesday night, at the monthly Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild general meeting, we had a fascinating presentation from author Russell Kirkpatrick. I’m gonna say it was about story shape, because that’s what he said it was about. But that’s kind of like saying Lord of the [...]
Guest post by Nicole Murphy One of the great things about being a speculative fiction writer in Australia is the speculative fiction community and the way it supports and encourages writers of all levels. Here in Canberra, there’s a couple of opportunities for people interested in writing spec fic to [...]
Recently at CSFG, we floated the idea of turning last year's Everything I Know About Storytelling I Learned From Star Wars blog post, discussion and sequel into an irregular series in our meetings and on our blog. Inspired by that idea, Tim Napper, writing at www.nappertime.com, has posted his Blade Runner response: [...]
Guest post by Marcus Amann As a full-time writer in the IT industry by day and a comedy writer by night, I take my writing tools seriously. With all the writing I have to do, I have to maximise my productivity. I’ve learned that to achieve my writing goals, I [...]
Last night, 16 October, CSFG held our annual general meeting. The outgoing committee reported to the members on activities and achievements for the year, including:publication of the Next anthologypublication of Next, Winds of Change and Kaaron Warren's The Grinding House as e-bookschanging our membership structure to welcome Outer Canberra membersour [...]
Guest post by the CSFG Hive Mind (written by Ian McHugh) Star Wars being the endless font of storytelling wisdom and etceteras that it is, and after some lively discussion at our monthly CSFG members’ meeting, Everything I Know About Storytelling I Learned From Star Wars has spawned a not-very-long-awaited [...]
One of the hardest tasks to befall a writer is turning months, years of labour and hundreds of pages, thousands of words, into a few brief sentences. But that is the task that you will take on if you decide to take part in one of the pitches at Conflux [...]