{"id":570,"date":"2014-03-23T12:27:52","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T16:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suzannechurch.com\/wordpress\/?p=570"},"modified":"2014-06-12T08:49:12","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T12:49:12","slug":"tattoo-research-goes-a-long-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/suzannechurch.com\/wordpress\/tattoo-research-goes-a-long-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Tattoo Research Goes a Long Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ElementsBelow, dear reader, please find bonus content<\/b><\/u> for Suzanne’s book: ELEMENTS: A Collection of Speculative Fiction<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n

This series of posts provides stories-behind-the-stories for each tale in ELEMENTS<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Sitting in the 13th slot in the Table of Contents<\/a> is: Tattoo Ink<\/b><\/p>\n

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From January 2 to February 12 2005, I attended Clarion South in Brisbane, Australia. What an adventure! I certainly learned more about writing and editing in those six weeks than I had learned up until that point in my writing career. <\/p>\n

One of my classmates, Shane Jiraiya Cummings<\/a> and Angela Challis edited the innovative charity anthology Shadow Box<\/i><\/b>. The project was described as, “a fusion of dark art and flash fiction lashed together with multimedia nastiness.” With 70 stories, creepy music, and twisted artwork, the anthology arrived on a CD and was well worth the money.<\/p>\n

\"sboxcover\"I looked through my old emails and couldn’t recall the tight word-count guidelines for submissions, but I believe the maximum was 125 words<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Not very many words at all!<\/p>\n

I was delighted to learn that Tattoo Ink<\/i> would be included in the project.<\/p>\n

On some level, I believe that my research into the tattoo arts not only inspired this tale, but also the rules for tattooing the population in Destiny Lives in the Tattoo’s Needle<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Fun Fact<\/b><\/u><\/p>\n

I began blogging after my two-week writing workshop at the Center for the Study of Sciece Fiction in Kansas in the summer of 2004. Lucky for me, I was comfortable enough with blogging that I was able to blog during my Clarion South trip.<\/p>\n

And although Clarion is one of those experiences you can only have once, my thoughts and insights will exist online as long as LiveJournal stays in business.<\/p>\n

While some of the links might no longer be active, you can still read my Clarion South adventures on LiveJournal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\"ElementsELEMENTS: A Collection of Speculative Fiction<\/i><\/a> is available in Canada and the USA from EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Below, dear reader, please find bonus content for Suzanne’s book: ELEMENTS: A Collection of Speculative Fiction. This series of posts provides stories-behind-the-stories for each tale in ELEMENTS. Sitting in the 13th slot in the Table of Contents is: Tattoo Ink From January 2 to February 12 2005, I attended Clarion South in Brisbane, Australia. What an adventure! I certainly learned more about writing and editing in those six weeks than I had learned up until that point in my writing\u2026<\/p>\n

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