Writing SF For Kids
by Justin Stanchfield Is writing science fiction or fantasy for younger markets really different? Well … Yes and No. It’s […]
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7 Reasons Fiction Writers Should Sell Nonfiction
by Carol Ottolenghi This article first appeared in Speculations. Copyright © 1997 by Carol Ottolenghi. All rights reserved. Most of
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A Writer’s Guide to Understanding the Copyeditor
by Terry McGarry Originally appeared in the Bulletin of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Spring 1995. Copyright
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Murder Your Darlings
It’s the nature of writers to fall in love with words, particularly their own. Clever turns of phrase excite us; we beam like proud parents when our protagonists take on lives of their own; a shapely plot twist can turn our heads. There is nothing wrong with indulging in the occasional fling-as long as it stops in draft. When time comes to make that final revision, however, you must harden your heart, sharpen the ax and murder your darlings.
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A Tale of Two Art Forms
by Alexandra Elizabeth Honigsberg It’s often said that nothing learned goes to waste. Certainly we as writers find this is
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Doyle’s YA SF Rant
by Dr. Debra Doyle This rant first appeared in the book review section of hwæt!, my zine for Apanage, a
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Doyle’s SF Genre Rant
by Dr. Debra Doyle The temptation, in arguments involving genre fiction and literary taste, is to give up and say,
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The Theory and Practice of Titles
by B.W. Clough Copyright © 1995 B. W. Clough. First published in the Fall 1995 issue of the Bulletin. A
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The Sobering Saga of Myrtle the Manuscript
From March, 1986, until its untimely demise in February, 1989, I was the Editor-in-Chief of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine, and Editorial Director of its “twisted sister” publication, Night Cry. During that time, we received an average of one hundred manuscripts per week, in addition to a backlog of more than 2000 manuscripts left behind by my predecessor.
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