I’ll be selling $4 copies of Time Management for Anarchists and helping host the Artcade indie videogame room at Canzine:
Sunday, October 26, 2008
The Gladstone Hotel
1214 Queen St. West (Queen just East of Dufferin)
Toronto
I’ll be at a table 1pm - 5pm, and then hosting the presentations in the Artcade room from 5-7pm.
Time Management for Anarchists started as a seminar I did at a zine fair five years ago, so I’m happy to be launching this comic at Canzine this Sunday. After doing the seminar a bunch of times, I did a Flash animation where judging by the traffic and the comments, various non-anarchist folks found it useful/enjoyable. So I worked with Marc Ngui and comic publisher IDW to start on a comic adaptation of it to see how it’d work for a broader audience, and Diamond is shipping the results to comic shops soon (#OCT084221).
For folks involved in anarchist groups or infoshops, I’d like to send you some free copies. Just drop a line and let me know who and where you are.
You can also read a free PDF of the 22 page comic (archive.org direct download | legaltorrent bittorrent). I’d be happy to chat about the various controversial issues it brings up in the comments!
Community Building and Indie Gamemaking
Wednesday, November 5, 1-2pm
Future Play conference, Toronto
What’s the importance of community building in the world of indie gamemaking? McGinley and Munroe will discuss this as well as some of the challenges and rewards of running two grassroots projects, the Artsy Games Incubator and The Toronto Independent Game Development Jam.
I did a talk at Word on the Street last week tailored to a general, writing-interested Toronto audience. Ramón Pérez did live sketches that illustrated the talk, which were amazing considering the scant minutes each was allowed and the not-terribly-visual subject matter.
Other than actually writing, the most important thing to do as a writer is get your writing out to readers. You get feedback from readers, connect with fellow writers who share your sensibility, & you get a sense of closure that allows you to move on to your next project.
Some people think that getting published by a traditional book publisher is the only way to get your writing out to readers. There’s a real bottleneck here — even though there’s some benefit to the publishers in this circumstance, I would argue that writers don’t benefit from it, readers don’t benefit from it, and neither does our writing culture. This perception of the editor-gatekeepers just creates a tense and risk-averse climate.
So, I’m going to detour around the bottleneck and focus on the diversity of methods writers can use to get their writing out there. The ten things I list are often considered different mediums and require collaboration and/or different skillsets, but writing can be central to them. Read the rest of this post »
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