Lloyd Alexander Documentary Kickstarter, Creative Writing Lectures + Updates

When Lloyd Alexander (author of many novels including the Chronicles of Prydain) passed away, he left his papers to the BYU library, which has an exhibit that is a recreation of Alexander's home office. BYU student Jared Crossley is making a documentary on Lloyd Alexander, the short version of which will accompany the exhibit and the long version of which will be used by various literary organizations and libraries. To finance the documentary, he is running a Kickstarter campaign. If you're a Lloyd Alexander fan, check it out.

Supanova put up a recording of my panel and reading that I did in Melbourne. At the beginning I read for fifteen minutes from my forthcoming novella LEGION from Subterranean Press. It's followed by some Q&A.

The most recent Writing Excuses podcast episode is a microcasting one where we cover a bunch of topics quickly. This one touches on:

• Prologues and epilogues
• Using drawings to get across settings
• Simple tricks for naming things
• Would you self-publish if you had a do-over?
• How do you keep a powerful character interesting?
• Foreshadowing
• Trimming
• Flashbacks

This week's ALCATRAZ VERSUS THE EVIL LIBRARIANS annotation covers the very beginning of the Brandon Avalanche. My assistant has also uploaded another Twitter posts archive.

Tor.com's science blogger Dr. Lee Falin has another post on the science of Allomancy. This one discusses how zinc and brass might work. (Also see tin and copper.)

Scott Ashton uploaded a couple more of my creative writing class lectures. You can see them below.