An Approach for Shifting the Setting in an Alternate Retelling
By J.D. Harlock Four years ago, I started writing speculative fiction professionally to modest success. I owe my entire career […]
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How to Establish and Use a Pen Name
by the SFWA Safety Committee Have you ever considered writing under a pen name? Some authors use pseudonyms to separate
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Wide For the Win: Part 2 – Retail Promotions
by John Wilker In my previous post on going Wide for the Win, I gave an overview of an author’s
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Designing Your Fictional Spaceship
by Jeremy Zentner Spaceships have been iconic in science fiction ever since Jules Verne wrote From the Earth to the
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The LGBTQ+ Speculative Experience: Part 3
(Kind of like the Star Trek Experience—lots of diversity that some accept, some fight, and others never see) by Elle
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Making Use of Genre and Categories
by Anthony W. Eichenlaub Genre: A marketing construct. Its only purpose is to get books into the hands of people
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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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Work-for-Hire in Short Fiction: An Overview
By Rachael K. Jones Work-for-hire writing jobs are common in novel-length work, especially in the world of tie-in fiction, but
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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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Book Descriptions
by Scott King Writing book descriptions sucks, but it doesn’t have to be hard. If you can write a whole
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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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What I Learned Cowriting A Novella
By Gareth L. Powell In 2020, I had the privilege of cowriting a science fiction novella called Light Chaser with