Sudden: Writing on the Go
by Eugen Bacon Editor’s note: This piece is part of an occasional series titled Writing by Other Means, in which […]
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Whoops, I Wrote a Story: How to Make App Addictions Work for Your Writing
by Marie Croke Editor’s note: This piece is part of an occasional series titled Writing by Other Means, in which
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Discovery Writing Through Gaming
by Austin Conrad How do you move forward when stuck on telling a story? Sometimes the best way is to
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Anatomy of a Tabletop Adventure
By Austin Conrad Writing in the genre of tabletop games has a lot of similarities to fiction writing when it
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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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The Gamemaster’s Guide to Short Story Plot
By Ursula Whitcher My first fictional love was tabletop role-playing games, from Dungeons & Dragons and ’90s classics like Vampire:
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Imagination Without Images: Aphantasia and SFF Readers and Writers
By Kim Zarins When I was a child, I snuck out to the backyard, made a little circle of stones,
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Writing Eyebrows: How to Orchestrate Emotion in Your Story
by Hunter Liguore Creating new characters takes a careful eye. When an idea comes, we might rely on familiar images
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Tired Disability Tropes In SFF: Do Better
By Anessa Kemna Science fiction and fantasy should be the perfect places for disability representation. Writers make the rules in
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ROMANCING SFF: Why Romance Should Be Part of Your Worldbuilding
by R. K. Thorne Worldbuilding is a fun aspect of writing fantasy and science fiction. It is so tempting to