Using Sensory Triggers to Prime Your Brain for Writing
By Holly Henderson As much as science fiction and fantasy writers love wandering the vast worlds that exist in our […]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Effective Goal Setting for Writers
by Cat Rambo
Milestones are markers that show you’ve reached the end of one of these steps. Just as physical road markers tell you how far you’ve journeyed, these milestones help you mark progress.
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When Words Melt Away
by Hunter Liguore
Writing classes and books are filled with tips on creating characters and developing plot, but very few ever offer the golden jewel that oversees all the other components meshing together to arrive at a story or novel: coherence. In fact, when an author discovers coherence for the first time, they will experience a place where words melt away, and the only thing that remains is a deep knowing and trust in how the story will take shape.
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The Reality of Writing in Uncertain Times
by Kali Wallace
By now everybody who spends any time on the internet has seen the quarantine memes. Isaac Newton invented calculus during a plague outbreak–what are you doing with your time? Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein when stuck inside during bad weather–why haven’t you invented a literary genre yet? Look at how Giovanni Boccaccio used his pandemic–have you been as productive?