I’m volunteering all weekend at the CanWrite! 2010 conference. I’ll be at registration, and then doing signup for the blue pencil sessions. I’ll probably be everywhere, but I can be tracked down there, if anyone is so inclined. I’m excited at the prospect of my first writing conference, and this one is focusing on something dear to my heart – applying technology to your writing.

It’s interesting how technology is changing the industry. People are experimenting with storytelling via Twitter the mind-bogglingly broad spectrum of webcomics. Two of my recent discoveries have been Metaphysical Neuroma by Attila and FreakAngels, written by the iconic Warren Ellis.

Comics are their own separate world from writing and publishing books, but they have strange and sometimes beautiful overlap, such as that personified in Neil Gaiman, who has written everything from the screenplay and then novel of the BBC’s Neverwhere to the children’s book Coraline to the fantastic graphic novel Sandman to the novel American Gods. He’s amazingly dynamic, and has had a definite impact on both my writing and the variety of vectors my interests follow.