by Erik Johnson | Jun 28, 2023 | Blog |
I was accepted to Taos Toolbox 2023 led by Walter Jon Williams and Nancy Kress! I’m learning a TON and getting a lot of different feedback on my writing. I feel like I’ve advanced a year in...
by Erik Johnson | Nov 23, 2022 | Publications, Writing
My first professionally published short story , “Gardens of Titan” appears in the January/February 2023 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact! The issue will be available on newsstands, and bookstores on December 14, 2022. (Do they still have...
by Erik Johnson | Aug 21, 2011 | Writing
Regardless of the dubious use of ‘irony’*, I find it funny that I write about motivation in the last blog entry and then the very next week finds several days in a row where I didn’t write anything. I had been writing consistently for a couple...
by Erik Johnson | Aug 13, 2011 | Writing
Recently, I answered a question posed on a message board about how to stay motivated to write. The fact that I felt that I had some advice worth giving is kind of funny, really. But I have learned quite a bit about motivation in the last year, so I thought now was as...
by Erik Johnson | Jul 27, 2011 | Writing
Last year, I wrote a story for a contest. It received good reviews and nice scores, but didn’t win. I later brought the story to Oz Drummond’s writing workshop at 2010 ReConStruction in Raleigh, figuring it was the strongest I had. It was also the only...
