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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What’s an Idea Worth?
If you’ve been reading this blog for any amount of time, you’ll know that I’m fascinated by the bizarre things that happen at the outer fringes of the publishing universe.
Key Conditions for Suspense:
Part 11 – Make the problem hard to solve with disadvantages
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.
Deadline for Claiming Cash Payment Under Google Book Settlement Has Been Extended
A couple of weeks ago, I reported that the parties involved in the Google Book Settlement had applied for an extension of the deadline for authors to file claims for cash payments for works scanned by Google without permission.
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 newest Active member Charles Oberndorf, author of Foragers (Bantam Spectra '96). # Welcome to SFWA's newest Active member @stdennard author of THE SPIRIT-HUNTERS (HarperCollins Childrens/12) http://susandennard.com/ # Welcome to SFWA's newest Active member @MykeCole author […]
Quick Updates for 2011-02-23
Not that we have news to post or anything, but… stand by. # @JulietteWade It works when I click it. # @WannabeWriter06 It works when I click it. Are you sure? #
Guest Blog Post: Beware of Pay-To-Play TV Talk Shows
This guest post by author and essayist Kim Brittingham addresses an issue I’ve been getting an increasing number of questions about lately: pay-to-play TV talk shows.
SFWA announces the 2010 Nebula Award Nominees
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America is proud to announce the nominees for the 2010 Nebula Awards. The Nebula Awards are voted on, and presented by, active members of SFWA. The awards will be announced at the Nebula Awards Banquet on Saturday evening, May 21, 2011 in the Washington Hilton, in Washington, D.C.. Other awards to […]
Quick Updates for 2011-02-22
Industry News and Member News for Tobias Buckell, Keffy R. M. Kehrli, Jeffry Dwight, Blake Charlton, Allan Cole, and Catherynne Valente.
Quick Updates for 2011-02-21
@johnjosephadams On Tuesday. There is a preview of the list of nominees in the SFWA forums. #
