Theodore McCombs

URANIANS (@astrahousebooks); Best American SFF, @FandSF, @GuernicaMag. Clarion '17. Climate lawyer. Opera nut & ballet husband-man.

[Theodore McCombs @mrbruff]

Across four 2-hour classes, we’ll read and discuss classic SF/F short stories, old and new, that offer an intensified look at craft issues like exposition, narrator, and time. I had a lot of fun teaching this and can’t wait to talk about some of my favorite stories ever written.

[Theodore McCombs @mrbruff]

Come write with me! At @lighthousewriters we’re bringing back my hit 4-week craft seminar, “Standing on the Shoulders of Giant Robots: Craft Lessons from Speculative Short Fiction.” (Sign up at lighthousewriters dot org)

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Say goodnight to the "Man in the Wall" by @mrbruff

Read the first pages of the story here: https://t.co/KdYwKieOWq

#litmag #WritingCommunity #fiction

[Theodore McCombs @mrbruff]

All levels and all genres welcome! While we'll do some in-class exercises, this is a craft seminar, not a workshop. DM me for any questions, and here's that link!
https://t.co/VLAg7KLlxe... (4/4)

[Theodore McCombs @mrbruff]

In one month! I'll be teaching a 4-session online seminar through the Lighthouse Writers Workshop, "Standing on the Shoulders of Giant Robots: Craft Lessons from Speculative Fiction." Four Wednesday evenings, March 19 to April 9. Registration link below: (1/4)

[Theodore McCombs @mrbruff]

Week 2, Exposition and Conflict
- Octavia Butler, "Bloodchild"
- Ted Chiang, "Exhalation"

Week 3, Time
- Ken Liu, "Seven Birthdays"
- Aimee Bender, "The Leading Man"

Week 4, Speculative Sentences
- Samuel R. Delaney, "Aye, and Gomorrah"
- Cesar Aira, "The Musical Brain"

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[Theodore McCombs @mrbruff]

And, if we have time, we'll do paragraph-level read of the opening to Chekhov's novella "The Black Monk" and the bravura reality-warping passage from Carmen Maria Machado's "Mothers." (WandaVision should be writing her checks IMO)

[Theodore McCombs @mrbruff]

Hey everyone, in two weeks I'll be teaching an online seminar though @lighthousewrite, on realist fiction with unreality at its center. Details below and at the sign-up link below. Anyone can register. I cannot wait to dive into these stories together!

[Theodore McCombs @mrbruff]

It's impossible to narrow this topic to a handful of stories, but I want us to look at Mavis Gallant and Elizabeth McCracken's ghost stories "From the Fifteenth District" and "Something Amazing" (two favorites), and magical realism in Gabo's "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings."

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@meakoopa I can kind of see Bella Swan voting for Trump. Steve Rogers? Only if a cosmic cube is involved

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@Jordanbloked This is Almodovar’s “A Strange Way of Life” isn’t it? I haven’t seen it yet but I think it’s from that one?

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@katemond Fancy name for Instagram likes

[Niko Ludwig @Collateral_com]

Single worst piece of software ever invented

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@meakoopa I’m picturing this as the most exquisite In Memoriam slideshow ever to be screened in the Kodak Theater

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@ArtSergeiTitov @meakoopa Iceman gets an (ice)bucket hat!

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@nicomuhly If you like Piña Bausch / and getting caught in the Rhine 💃🏻

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@meakoopa Different franchise gag but