{"id":3985,"date":"2017-06-30T17:26:16","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T00:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=3985"},"modified":"2017-09-06T14:57:26","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T21:57:26","slug":"taos-toolbox-in-the-taillights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/30\/taos-toolbox-in-the-taillights\/","title":{"rendered":"Taos Toolbox in the Taillights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170630_171700.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" alt=\"IMG_20170630_171700.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So I and my wife have an agreement: if it isn&#8217;t a public appearance, I don&#8217;t blog about travel until it&#8217;s over. Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/taostoolbox.com\/\">Taos Toolbox<\/a> 2017 is over, and I can say that this was one of the greatest writing experiences of my life.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170630_143447.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" alt=\"IMG_20170630_143447.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Run by Walter Jon Williams and Nancy Kress, the Toolbox is a &#8220;graduate level&#8221; workshop for writers who&#8217;ve either gone through another workshop like <a href=\"http:\/\/clarion.ucsd.edu\/\">Clarion<\/a>, or have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Anthony-Francis\/e\/B005YR2RJG\">published something on their own<\/a>. It was two solid weeks of instruction, critique and writing, complicated by a simultaneous deadline on my part for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robot-learning.org\/\">Conference on Robot Learning<\/a>; even despite staying up late many nights working on that paper, I had an amazing experience learning science fiction.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170623_220239.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" alt=\"IMG_20170623_220239.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll flesh out more about the workshop over the next few weeks as I digest it, but as for now, let me just say that this boot camp for writers was a transformative experience which really gave me a much deeper appreciation about how to construct stories and how to tell them. And now &#8230; time for a little rest!<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I and my wife have an agreement: if it isn&#8217;t a public appearance, I don&#8217;t blog about travel until it&#8217;s over. Well, Taos Toolbox 2017 is over, and I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[4,223],"class_list":["post-3985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-dragon-writers","tag-taos-toolbox","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3986,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985\/revisions\/3986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}