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Fantasy-Sci-Fi

Fantasy-Sci-Fi
Pizzanomics and the Economy of Words

In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde writes that people know the price of everything and the value…
March 10, 2023
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Strike the Earth

Any gamers in the house? I’m a huge fan of games: the creativity, the challenges, and the competition, of…
January 17, 2023
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Flash Fiction FUNdamentals

Flash fiction may sound new and alien, but it’s been around longer than you think. The query that inspired…
December 10, 2022
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This Little Light

Sharing your fantastical words and worlds can be terrifying. You feel everyone’s eyes on you, weighing the thoughts you…
November 15, 2022
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Wonder

I wonder… What made you fall in love with science fiction and fantasy? As a child, I loved fairy…
October 10, 2022
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Valued

Born female and Korean in Japanese-occupied China, Hyun Sook started at a deficit. Then polio left her with a…
September 10, 2022
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Location, Location, Location: Where Do We Find Our Peeps?

Finding your tribe can be difficult, especially for writers who’d much rather stay at home. It doesn’t take an…
August 10, 2022
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Sense Sensibilities

Filtered air wooshed in, wonderfully odourless. He climbed through the double airlock and into the dock itself, then collapsed…
July 11, 2022
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Who’s Ya Buddy?

Crashing waves. Wild winds. Scratchy sand between my toes. I loved those summer days when someone’s mom would offer…
June 11, 2022
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Baby Stepping

The proverbial journey of a thousand miles begins with the one step. But it doesn’t end there. Writing an…
May 7, 2022
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Write Ugly

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable and pleasing in Your sight,…
April 11, 2022
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Technology and Magic in your Science-fiction and Fantasy novels

An important part of what makes your story fit into the Science Fiction and/or Fantasy genres is an element…
December 15, 2021
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structure your novel with harmon’s story circle

In the early 2000s, Blake Snyder released Save the Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You’ll Ever Need. This…
October 7, 2021
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Should You Base Your Novel on Your RPG Camapaign?

Many fantasy writers got their introduction to the genre not through books but through Table Top Role Playing Games…
May 7, 2021
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Four Popular Options for Map-Making Software

World building is a critical part of any speculative fiction work. As we create new worlds, one of the…
April 7, 2021
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Military Units and Ranks for Your Speculative Fiction Novel

As writers of speculative fiction, military forces are a stable in many of our stories. Basing these on a…
December 7, 2020
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Writing bigger speculative fiction stories

In his 2017 best seller, You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Story, Houston Howard admonishes writers to create larger stories…
November 7, 2020
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How Genre Impacts Your Character Development

Sometimes it’s easy to think character development looks similar across genres. And for the reader, it usually does. Even…
September 7, 2020
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Your Protagonist: The Eyes to Your Story

Choosing a perspective character is one of the biggest choices when it comes to writing your novel. There are…
August 7, 2020
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How to Make Readers Feel At Home From Page 1

Have you ever walked into someone’s house as a first-time dinner guest and felt out of place? Ten other…
July 7, 2020
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How to Write Tactful Fantasy and Science Fiction During COVID-19

Writing during a global pandemic is probably not something you thought you’d be tackling. Writing is hard enough by…
June 7, 2020
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Tropes: How to Make Them Credible, Not Cliché

You could probably name tropes from your favorite books and movies without hardly thinking about it. There’s the Reluctant…
May 7, 2020
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World Building: What publishers Want

There’s something immersive about opening a fantasy or sci-fi book and feeling like there were hundreds of pages of…
April 7, 2020
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Three Ways to Use History to Build Your Fantasy

Margaret Atwood is well-known for her novel The Handmaid’s Tale, a dystopian first published in 1985. Her novel covers…
March 7, 2020
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How Setting Can Be a Worthy Villain

It takes a spell-binding plot and evocative characters to create a memorable story. Some writers meticulously plan each plot…
February 7, 2020