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What: San Antonio's “Can't Stop the Serenity” 2009 event featuring “Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog”
Where: Alamo Drafthouse Westlakes
When: This Sunday - 4 PM & 9 PM

"Can’t Stop the Serenity" is a global fundraising effort featuring charity screenings of Joss Whedon’s 2005 film Serenity to benefit Equality Now. In the last three years, the Austin Browncoats have raised over $16,000, and in total over $160,000 has been raised for Equality Now around the world. You can read all about the global event at http://www.cantstoptheserenity.com.

This year, in addition to Serenity, we are happy to announce that we will also be hosting the San Antonio-area big screen premiere of “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog,” Joss Whedon's award-winning internet musical sensation.

Fans of Joss Whedon show Serenity on his birthday to honor him and to raise money for his favorite charity, Equality Now. Equality Now (http://equalitynow.org/) works to end violence and discrimination against women and girls around the world through the mobilization of public pressure. In addition to raising money for Equality Now, we will also be donating a portion of the proceeds from the event to The Kids Need to Read Foundation. Kids Need To Read is a children's literacy non-profit organization who will take the money we raise and put it back into San Antonio's underprivileged schools, libraries and shelters.

Tickets for this event will be $15 in advance and $18 at the door and are now available online. For tickets and other information, visit http://www.cantstoptheserenity.com/sanantonio.
Hope to see you there.

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I feel like I’ve moved into a new level of writing.

There’s nothing concrete to put forth to present this.  But I find that, when I look at stuff I wrote even six months ago, I can see so many places where my writing is weak.  I can step back from it, and – even better – I can see how to fix it.

Undoubtably I’ll be saying the same thing in another six months about what I’m writing now.

This is a good thing.  There’s no point in writing and learning unless you can progress.

How has this come about?  Lots of different things.  Reading a lot – reading critically, especially of books that are popular (and often not considered “good”) is a really important way to learn.  It’s not all about dry technique – we can all point to a book that shows very little actual writing talent, but is loved by the public all the same.  I’ve also been listening to a lot of writing podcasts – namely I Should Be Writing, The Secrets and Writing Excuses.

Finding an awesome group of beta readers who are willing to deconstruct my writing word by word is probably worth more than all of these things combined.  I cannot express how valuable all of my betas are.  Anyone who’s writing in a vacuum – find yourself some first readers.  You won’t regret it.

I learn almost as much betaing for other people, too.  I read or heard recently that we’ll often look for the things in others’ work that we’re actively working on ourselves, which is a really interesting way of looking at it for me.

It’s challenging myself, forcing myself to keep on learning and developing.  And it keeps on going.

Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.