Making Monsters
An essay by James Patrick Kelly on the writing of his short story ‘Monsters’.
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“Excuse Me, How Much Did It Cost You?”
An anti-scam handout by A. C. Crispin
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 […]
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Does “SFWA Member” help sell your story? Top SF editors comment
The question arises from time to time, “Should I put SFWA member on my cover letter.” Here are what some editors had to say about that from an article in 1998. Gardner Dozois says, “I take membership in a professional organization like SFWA or HWA as an indication that I should pay more attention to […]
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