Reimagining Conflict
by Marie Brennan Recently, I’ve seen a number of online discussions about stories without conflict, especially stories from outside the […]
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Treading on Embers
By Lorraine Wilson Statistics are easy to quote, but difficult to connect to, don’t you think? It’s easy to say
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I Feel Funny: Humor Writing Tips for Novelists
By Kathy Flann We think of humor as something that just … happens. Yet, as someone who writes both humor
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10 Hands-On Tips For Writing Flash Fiction
By Maria Haskins Writing flash fiction—commonly defined as a story of no more than 1,000 or 1,500 words—can seem daunting
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Story Salvage: Finding the Opportunity in Failure
By Jeff Somers It’s often noted that in baseball, making an out 70 percent of the time is considered all-star
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Two Essential Questions to Ask As You Self-Edit
By Kahina Necaise Convincing fiction is about cause and effect. That’s why, in my work as an editor, the two
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Sidequesting: An Antidote to “I Should Be Writing”
By Rebecca Hardy I love systems. I think most worldbuilders do, at least to some extent. Systems of magic. Systems
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What Speculative Fiction Writers Can Learn from the Origins and Evolution of the Wuxia Genre
by Yilin Wang Note: This article first appeared in The Bulletin #216 in October 2021. When I tell other writers
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Developing Games and Developing as a Parent
by Karlyn Meyer Note: This article first appeared in The Bulletin #216 in October 2021. I started making my first
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Why Writing Second Person POV Appeals To Marginalized Writers
by Valerie Valdes Note: This article previously appeared in The Bulletin #216 in October 2021. You open the SFWA Bulletin