Rollout
Rollout! by Brian Dana Akers
The SFWA Blog, Writing Technique
How morphology can help you!
Morphology is a fantasy and science fiction writer’s best friend. Seriously. Why? Because everyone uses it, and I mean everyone, whether they know it or not. Every story that makes up a name for a group of people and then pluralizes it is using morphology. Every story that takes a nice-sounding made-up word and then adds on a suffix to make the name of a country or city is using it too.
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Manifold: Origin by Stephen Baxter
Manifold: Origin by Stephen Baxter (Available for Purchase)
Available for Purchase, Member Fiction Online
Star Trek: The Original Series #15: Corona by Greg Bear
Star Trek: The Original Series #15: Corona by Greg Bear (Available for Purchase)
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Vitals by Greg Bear
Vitals by Greg Bear (Available for Purchase)
Press Book, The SFWA Blog
2009 Octavia E. Butler Scholar – Rochita Loenen-Ruiz
A beautiful, handcast commemorative pendant in the shape of an owl has been awarded to the 2009 Octavia E. Butler
Writing Technique
Research Tool: Random name generators and lists
Sometimes coming up with the right character name can be the hardest part. Whether working in secondary worlds or the real world, we have some research tools to make picking that perfect name a little easier.
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Quick Updates for 2009-08-24
Obscure math and astronomy texts. Arbitrary backlist policies. Member News about David Anthony Durham, Ken Scholes, N. K. Jemisin, and Victoria Janssen.
Building a Career, Networking and Self-Promotion, The SFWA Blog
The Pros and Cons of Having Your Own Website
Do you need to have you own website? It depends on what you want to use the website for. Having an online presence may or may not translate to your desired action, in part because your presence really is about “you” as a person rather than “you” the author. With today’s technology, the two are not mutually exclusive.
The SFWA Blog, Writing Technique
How articulatory phonetics can help you!
Articulatory phonetics deals with how the human vocal tract creates sounds.
Knowing the principles of how the vocal tract works can help science fiction and fantasy writers to create languages that follow naturalistic patterns of pronunciation, thus making created languages that seem more natural.