Next up on our tour of literary genres is Horror. (Because of the plethora of subgenres Science Fiction features, I’ve decided to make it…
Next up on our tour of literary genres is Horror. (Because of the plethora of subgenres Science Fiction features, I’ve decided to make it…
I know I promised you the subgenres of Science Fiction this week, but unforeseen schedule constraints meant that I had to postpone it. Again….
After the popularity of my post on the various subgenres of Fantasy, I decided it was unfair to leave authors of the other common…
I remember, back in the day, (nothing makes you feel old like starting a sentence with “back in the day”) Fantasy and Sci-fi were…
Fight scenes. Whether live action or written, they can be such a pain to pull off, falling all too easily into the realm of…
What Editors Look for: Character Progression
Do you want to be the exact same person at the end of your life as you were at…
I’m pretty sure that somewhere out there is a book written entirely about crafting your novel’s first chapter. It’s a science and an art…
If you know what someone wants, it becomes that much easier to give it to her. Outside of genre and word length preferences, editors…
Revision. For many writers, I may as well have said Root Canal. They dread it like they do a jury duty summons. They know…