Tag: reflections
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Treat It Like a Business
Oftentimes, you hear the writing advice, “Treat it like a business.” When authors say that, most of the time what they mean is you have to write even when you don’t feel like it. Which is true. As E.B. White once put it, “a writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die…
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The Big Con Roundup: Worldcon & DragonCon
Since I didn’t have a chance to attend WorldCon or Dragon*Con this year, I’ve been jealously watching other people’s adventures. So I thought I’d do a round-up, in case you’re doing the same. Plus, there’s lots and lots of great fantasy and science fiction writing and publishing advice in these posts. But first, +Scott Edelman tells us…
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Genres Bending, Blending, and Mixing
In the speculative fiction genre, a perpetual battle wages between science fiction and fantasy. Just Google “difference between science fiction and fantasy” and you’ll find 100 different answers. Even the ancient Greeks struggled with defining genre, and they essentially invented it! The Speculative Fiction Spectrum I’ve been mulling over how my novels fit into the…