Guest Post: Writing Advice
You become a writer by writing. You learn by damaging your ego, and giving more of yourself than you take. By a thousand revelations, by millions of words you improve.
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Quick Updates for 2011-05-08
Congratulations to SFWA member @BrandSanderson on his Whitney Award win for "The Way Of Kings." #
Key Conditions for Suspense:
Part 21 – Patterns for Presenting the Problem: Elements 4-5
If the main character is sympathetic and interesting, the reader will root for her and want to see what happens. If some of the particularities of the character and problem are surprising to the readers, it will generate more interest than if it’s something they’ve seen many times before.
Quick Updates for 2011-05-07
Interview with fashionpunk novelist & SFWA member @jon_armstrong. http://is.gd/nkzOTW # SFWA member @StinaLeicht is signing at Barnes & Noble in the Arboretum Austin tomorrow at 2pm. # @clundoff Welcome back! #
Pay to Play Anthologies
Vanity anthologies are a popular way for unscrupulous companies to make money on writers’ hunger for publication. By far the most common vanity anthology scheme is the free contest scheme, in which writers are enticed to enter poems or stories in a competition, and then pressured–though usually not required–to buy the anthologies in which their work appears.
Quick Updates for 2011-05-04
Welcome to SFWA's newest Active member @DianeWhiteside, author of The Shadow Guard (Kensington, 2011) http://www.dianewhiteside.com/ # Welcome to SFWA's newest Associate member, @NataniaBarron, with a sale to Bull Spec. # Welcome to SFWA's newest Associate member, Thomas Mays, with a sale to Jim Baen's Universe # Welcome to SFWA's newest Active member Dave Gross, author […]
Write on the River 2011
2011 WRITE ON THE RIVER CONFERENCE SHOWCASES PACIFIC NORTHWEST LITERARY TALENT Wenatchee’s year-round writing organization has outdone itself this year, bringing three New York Times best-selling authors and an experienced homegrown array of predominantly Pacific Northwest authors and editors to the upcoming May 14-15 conference. Held at Wenatchee Valley College, this conference has become […]
A New Allan Cole’s My Hollywood Adventures
The newest My Hollywood Adventures newsletter by Allan Cole is up! You can find it here.
Duncan Jones, Director of Source Code – a Video Interview
Director Duncan Jones discusses crafting stories, science fiction, and the making of his latest feature, SOURCE CODE.
Quick Updates for 2011-05-03
SFWA member @eugiefoster sold a short story, "Requiem Duet, Concerto for Flute and Voodoo," to Daily Science Fiction. # Welcome to SFWA's newest Active member James Treadwell, author of Advent (Hodder & Stoughton (UK), 2012) http://www.jamestreadwell.com/ # SFWA member Sunny Moraine (@dynamicsymmetry)'s short "The Thick Night" is now up at Strange Horizons: http://qr.net/bptl # SF […]
