SFF Writing for White Goblins: Decolonising your Defaults
by Nick Wood (NW) & Isiah Lavender III (IL) After finishing a working stint as a psychologist in Aotearoa, New […]
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Think Like a Horror Writer to Create Better Villains
by Michael J. Moore You write speculative fiction for the same reason you’ve read or watched it your entire life.
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Unusual Governments to Take Inspiration From
by Eleanor Konik Often, speculative fiction relies on common government types, like monarchies and republics, because they’re familiar to
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Cyberpunk: Writing for Tomorrow
by Naomi Norbez With the release of Cyberpunk 2077 a few months back, there has been some debate about what it
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Using Comic Scripts to Outline Your Fiction
by J.D. Harlock Sometimes, outlining is a never-ending struggle. Too much? Too little? You can never really tell until you
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Using Unreliable Narration to Create Voice
by Priya Chand All narrators are unreliable. If you’re reading this thinking “hey, you’re misusing the term; ‘unreliable narrator’
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Bisexual+ Characters Do Not Equal Threesomes
by C.K. Larsen Surely, nothing screams sexy like a bisexual+ woman asking, “How does it feel to kill someone?”
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Writing Through the Terrible Twos
by Noah K. Sturdevant It seems fair to say that authors are constantly scrambling for time to write. I
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Diversity Plus: Diverse Story Forms and Themes, Not Just Diverse Faces
by Henry Lien (This article originally appeared in The SFWA Bulletin #215.) Something I’ve noticed repeatedly in my author appearances,
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Butchness and Liminal Mortality in SF
by Hannah Abigail Clarke In the opening credits of Zach Snyder’s Watchmen, the phrase LESBIAN WHORES is briefly scrawled in