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With Craig Shaw Gardner and Jeffrey Carver!  Ten weeks, this fall, workshopping with two people who have written and published dozens of books.  I’m really excited; my friend Chis & I are both going.  Here’s the link to Craig’s announcement. 

Here’s Pandemonium Books in Central Square, Cambridge, where the class will be taught.  It was the first time I’d been there since they moved from Harvard Square, and the first time I’ve ever been able to wander the stacks at Pandemonium without getting hip-checked by other geeks and nerds.  Tons more room.  Great location, lots of room, same great store.

Since I’m starting from scratch, yet again, I thought I’d try out the new MSFT blogging tool, Windows Live Writer.  Its configuration is by far the simplest I’ve ever seen – you tell it the address, user ID and password, and it figures out for itself which interface to use.  It shows you a progress meter while it goes through a series of steps, something like these:

Connecting…

Determining format…

Determining editing style…

Editing style? What th’heck does that mean?  writes short posts, revises each one six or seven times… What else could it do?

Determining writing style…

That would be good. 

Microsoft has classified your blog as Trivial Quotidian Modern, and created the following sample posts for you:

Statue of Britney Spears Giving Birth…

on bearskin rug! Yuck. Check it out!

That guy playing Pachelbel’s Canon on an Electric Guitar!

and twenty other guys who did the same thing!  YouTube! Check it out!

….

Press OK to accept these blog posts, or Cancel to switch to LiveSpaces.

Well, actually, this thing seems to work pretty well.  No real complaints, so far, which means it beats th’heck out of everything else I’ve ever tried.