SFWA announces the Pacific Northwest Reading Series
The greater Pacific Northwest is home to Ursula K. Le Guin, Kay Kenyon, Jay Lake, Nancy Kress, Brent Weeks, Ted […]
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Guest Post: Building Secondary Worlds
I’m surprised quite often how little or ill thought-out the political and economic infrastructure of secondary worlds can be. How the hell do people get food to eat? How do they earn their money? What are their voting rights and what stops people from rising up against their governments?
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Part 12 – Make the problem hard to solve with conflict
Remember, the better the opposition, the more tension the reader will feel because a formidable opponent increases the chances in the reader’s mind that the hero will fail.
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Quick Updates for 2011-03-05
Welcome to SFWA # Welcome to SFWA's newest Active member Peter David author of Fable: The Balverine Order (ACE/2010). #
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Quick Updates for 2011-03-04
Friday is the last day to register for the Nebula Awards weekend before the rates go up. http://is.gd/O2tAo1 #
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Quick Updates for 2011-03-03
Member News for Laura Ruby, Charles Oberndorf, Susan Dennard, Myke Cole, Diana Peterfreund, Julia Watts Belser, Carmen Ferreiro-Esteban, Kat Howard, Larson Richard, Ryne Douglas Pearson, Arthur Dorrance, Daniel M. Kimmel, William Lawhorn, Eugie Foster, and David Levine.
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Guest Post: Why Writers Suck at Marketing
Writers and marketing. In this digital age, the two words are becoming synonymous, but to what end? Having been on both sides of the fence, this is a difficult post for me to write. This isn’t the sort of thing I care to admit or highlight to people, because writers are a unique breed.
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Welcome to SFWA's newest Affiliate member, Arthur Dorrance. # Welcome to SFWA's newest affiliate member, film critic Daniel M. Kimmel.
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Guest Post: 5 Things To Do In Your First 3 Paragraphs
Display your command of language. It’s worthwhile for a writer to think about poetry, and all its devices like assonance and alliteration, metaphor and allusion, internal rhythm, even meter.
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Readers want to hope and fear for a character. To feel this, they must not know what WILL happen, but do need to suspect or know what MIGHT happen and feel tension about the possibilities.
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Quick Updates for 2011-02-25
Welcome to SFWA's newest Active member, Laura Ruby (@thatlauraruby), author of The Chaos King (HarperCollins/07) http://www.lauraruby.com/ # Welcome to SFWA's
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Not that we have news to post or anything, but… stand by. # @JulietteWade It works when I click it.