I have a feature on the Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing facebook page: "Something you may not know ... featuring Lynda Williams".

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posted by Lynda at 07:24   permalink comment? e-mail lynda@okalrel.org 0 comments

 
I've given facebook ORU page admin Catherine T. Vogt a memory stick of outtakes, first drafts, old false starts and experimental sketches that never made it into books ... as well, no doubt, as some earlier versions of bits that did or will ... for her to rummage through and share on the Okal Rel Universe facebook page.

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posted by Lynda at 18:51   permalink comment? e-mail lynda@okalrel.org 0 comments

 

I'll be warming up to the launch of Part 6: Avim's Oath on facebook over the next few months. Visitors welcome! Bring a friend, because the ORU is best to share with someone else to talk to it about.

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posted by Lynda at 07:43   permalink comment? e-mail lynda@okalrel.org 0 comments

 
Catherine invites you to share your favorite character descriptions on Awesome Character Descriptions forum on the Okal Rel Universe page in facebook. I contributed a description of Amel from Draft-in-Progress of Part 9: Holy War.

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posted by Lynda at 21:16   permalink comment? e-mail lynda@okalrel.org 0 comments

 
Thrilled to discover my name in the list of science fiction authors on facebook, in such excellent company. Click here .

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posted by Lynda at 21:54   permalink comment? e-mail lynda@okalrel.org 0 comments

 
On July 5, 2009, ORU author Hal Friesen closed his facebook account with the following notice:

I am deleting my facebook account, because I am strongly opposed to the way information is disseminated and presented. It encourages the type of interaction I greatly dislike, and discourages meaningful relationships, in my opinion. There are exceptions but these do not outweigh the informational issues.

I send him an e-mail saying I appreciated the sentiments. I use facebook mostly because of Catherine T. Vogt, these days. She's made me find a reason to enjoy it. Until then, like most of the web 2 sites I've tried, a heavy sense of "me me me" prevailed with little "us us us". I've found a way to use twitter, as well, by posting a line a day from successive pages of Part 1: The Courtesan Prince, but this was a sort of "I'm lost" reaction to the challenge of making a meaningful connection in a storm of one liners. It made sense to me so I did it. But, like Hal, I sometimes feel unsatisfied with bite-sized conversations. And like him, it's the meaning that's lacking. Work seems to be all about surveys and five-point-scales and where-do-we-rank and how-many-votes ... that's bad enough without wading knee deep in popularity contests to refresh the emotional/artistic side of my life. Maybe just like science, quickie communications are not good or bad but what you make of them. Hoping to "play" a bit with Catherine and others on the facebook page for the ORU. But completely respect people, like Hal, who engage on other levels. Hal has written a second Nestor story for the upcoming anthology, Opus 4. Like his first one, it exemplifies aspects of story-telling no video game can, because it's not just about the action but the philosophy of being a unique human being in a world that doesn't go out of its way to make the meaning of things obvious to anyone.

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posted by Lynda at 08:37   permalink comment? e-mail lynda@okalrel.org 0 comments

 

Catherine posted this to her ORU stuff page on facebook with the following comment:

"I finally got enough of a mental pic of Amel to be able to draw him last night. It's from Far Arena when Alka lands on him, when he's wearing the blue t-shirt and shorts. He's on Rire on the common grass."

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posted by Lynda at 08:10   permalink comment? e-mail lynda@okalrel.org 0 comments

 
Started working on a facebook page yesterday. Want to consolidate the 'gathering' function online. Come sign up! The URL is http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lynda-Williams/69101973948. David Lott is helping with technical problems. You can reach him at david@okalrel.org

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