Pat Murphy
Write-a-Thon!
Member Info
Joined: July 27, 2014
Last Visited: June 24, 2019
Writer Bio
I attended Clarion in 1978. It changed my writing and it changed my life. Today, I write fiction that exists in the borderland between genres, where life is interesting and the rules are slippery. I’m very grateful that science fiction exists, since it has provided a home for seven of my eight novels and many of my short stories. In my current day job, I am the resident Evil Genius at MysteryScience.com, where I create science activities to inspire and amaze elementary school students to love science as much as I do.(And yes, I am wearing electrodes in the photo. I volunteered to be part of a brain study. It was great fun.)
Writing Goal
I'm shooting for 7 hours of writing for each week of the 6-week Write-a-thon. By my (unscientific) reckoning, that should let me finish up two short stories and make some progress on a novelette.
writing goal:
42 Writing at least an hour a day, for all 42 days of Clarion
progress:
25
funds raised:
$205.00
funds pledged:
$42.00 ($1.00 / unit)
Alas, the Clarion Write-a-Thon has ended, with $9,638.48 raised so far! However, we are still accepting donations. Thank you for your support!
She never really wanted to be the mother -- the person who took responsibility, the killjoy who was saying “Time for bed now” or “We’d better not do that” (where “that” is something that looks incredibly fun and also dangerous).
