You and Your Characters
An article by James Patrick Kelly on writing stronger characters.
Archive for the ‘The Craft of Writing’ Category
Breaking Into Print: What Length Sells Best?
Article by Melisa Michaels on how to build a writing career.
Making Monsters
An essay by James Patrick Kelly on the writing of his short story ‘Monsters’.
Writerisms and other Sins: A Writer’s Shortcut to Stronger Writing
Writerisms describes overused and misused language. In more direct words: find ’em, root ’em out, and look at your prose without the underbrush.
Hardcore Critique Guidelines
Written by Amy Sterling Casil When we criticise work, we are commenting for the purposes of publishability, and our goal is to help authors to become publishable and published writers. For prose pieces, the following issues are critically important: Plot – does the action make sense? Is what is written moving the story forward? Sometimes, […]
On Thud and Blunder
An essay by science fiction writer Poul Anderson on the importance of research, or at least of plain common sense and logical thought, in writing heroic fantasy.
MEDIA TIE-INS: Why They are Nearly Impossible for Beginners To Publish
Written by Roger MacBride Allen Because I have written three STAR WARS novels, and three novels set in Isaac Asimov’s Robots-Foundation universe, I get a lot of standard-mail and e-mail letters from readers who want to know: “How can I get to write that sort of book myself?” It’s not much fun to give the […]
