How To Guarantee A Short Fiction Sale Every Single Effin Time You Submit A Story
Don’t be a crappy, illiterate, crown-scribbling hack.
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A Tale of Storyfail: A Review of One’s Aspect to the Sun by Sherry Ramsey
One’s Aspect to the Sun, by Sherry D. Ramsey, isn’t a good book. It isn’t even an interestingly bad book I might enjoy in a “hated it but it made me think” way.
Why I write SF Theatre
There’s something beautiful about the live nature of theatre, that makes you feel that you’ve trespassed or that you’ve been invited
Sequential Wednesdays #24 – FINAL ISSUE: THE END OF AN ERA
Final issue in which Zach says farewell to an era in the issue of Sequential Wednesdays.
Wake Up Your Muse: How My Cat Taught Me the Art of Being
When I go to my computer to write, I write.
8 Reasons Ancient Egypt is an Awesome Place to Set your next Fantasy
Looking for a place to set your story? Here are some things to recommend ancient Egypt
150th Anniversary of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
On the 150th anniversary of President Lincoln’s speech, we provide the full text.
World-Building off Ancient Platforms
Information from a discussion about the ancient Mayans and ways of using ancient cultures for world-building.
Top Post de Octubre en Amazing Stories
Libros Hubo muchas reseñas de libros el mes pasado. Gary Dalkin reseña la colección de 10 historias Feast and Famine: Book Review – Feast and Famine by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Steve Fahnestalk nos recomienda el libro […]
Do You Game?
One way of “forcing” oneself to write is to join an online text-based role-playing game (RPG). In a text-based game, people assume a character within the framework of a particular universe and write stories with other characters in different settings according to various plots.
The Evolution of Rejection
Enduring and surviving rejection is part of every writer’s successful career.
Noticias Literatura 13-11
Noticias literatura: Terra Nova 2 el 21 de noviembre, Direcciones de la Hispacon 2013, VII muestra Criptshow Festival de narración de terror, fantasía y ciencia ficción, Premios Nocte.
Some Thoughts on NaNoWriMo
writers with drive will succeed because the writers with drive will keep writing
What You Pay For
Sometimes I see a review on Amazon that makes me do the puppy thing – you know, cock my head and make that little “baroo?” noise. A friend shared a link to a book with […]
Interview with Carl Critchlow, artist, illustrator and inventor of Thrud the Barbarian
Carl Critchlow has been an artist and author on the SF and fantasy scenes for almost thirty years, during which his work has appeared in DC Comics as well as 2000AD.
NaNoWriMoVember — What the Heck Is It?
Anyway, I thought maybe some of you might be interested in the process of writing a 50,000 word novel in the span of 30 days
Springer’s “Science and Fiction” Series Launched!
How does Einstein’s description of space and time compare with Dr. Who? Can James Bond really escape from an armor-plated railroad car by cutting through the floor with a laser concealed in a wristwatch?
Creating Great Characters in Fiction
Characters in fiction fulfill a dramatic function in the story for the reader and are, therefore, more logically laid out. They may, as a result, be more coherent, consistent and clear in their actions and qualities than a person in real life.
Fantastika 2013
Como prometido, he aquí el recuento de Fantastika 2013, que se llevara a cabo del 18 al 20 de octubre. El evento se realizó en Dieselverkstaden (Literalmente el taller diesel), un centro cultural a las […]
Sharon Lee and Steve Miller’s Liaden Universe – Trade Secret Tour
Lee & Miller are on a book tour that is well worth your time to attend.
Why Writing Science fiction is so Easy, or: How NOT to Write Science Fiction
This is the silliest, lamest, most self-indulgent column you will ever read in Amazing Stories Magazine.
To Expose Or Not To Expose…That Is the Question
In fiction, exposition breaks away from the ongoing action of a scene to give information. It can be a paragraph or go on for several pages. Exposition often provides contextual information critical for the reader to buy-in to character-motivation or the ideas promoted in the story.
Alexis Brito Delgado por M. C. Carper
M. C. Carper interviews Alexis Brito Delgado for Amazing Stories.
The Wrong Gadgets
Science Fiction is frequently accused of being a genre that’s too much about gadgets. I tend to think that we focus on the wrong gadgets, and that’s why that generalization is made.
Choosing Your Tense…and Keeping It
Have you taken the time to consider tense in your story?
On the Study of the Fantastic, Part II
I was deeply tempted to title this post “Academia for Fun and Profit,” but it seemed a bit misleading as the vast majority of people tend to read “profit” as traditional monetary gain.
Digital Imprints
Publishing. It’s been experiencing a revolution, and for a time, no one was quite sure where it was going…especially for traditional publishers.
A Matter of Fact – Getting it Right
There may be nothing worse than reading a science fiction story only to discover the author ignored the important element of plausibility. Just because the work is fiction, it does not give one the artistic license to shirk on the facts. So, where can authors go to get it right?
Beating Today’s “S” Curve (or Why an Editor is Every Writer’s Best Friend)
The publishing industry is currently experiencing its own version of the “S” curve and the “boom and bust” curve
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