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FOR WRITERS: How to Use Assertive Language to Improve Your Writing by Jason S...
One of the easiest ways to make your manuscript stronger is to practice assertive writing. Word economy can improve your writing, make your editors happy, and to create narrative drive.
FOR WRITERS: How to Use Assertive Language to Improve Your Writing by Jason S...
One of the easiest ways to make your manuscript stronger is to practice assertive writing. Word economy can improve your writing, make your editors happy, and to create narrative drive.

FOR WRITERS: Green Is Dead: Learning from Writing Cyberpunk by Alex Livingston
I still find myself keeping on the lookout for niche street tech and unique adaptations to our changing climate—and wondering how Akuba and her cronies would make a quick dishonest...
FOR WRITERS: Green Is Dead: Learning from Writing Cyberpunk by Alex Livingston
I still find myself keeping on the lookout for niche street tech and unique adaptations to our changing climate—and wondering how Akuba and her cronies would make a quick dishonest...

ESSAY: The Ecstasy of Influence by Paul Jessup
One of the things I love about genre is how we embrace our influences. We don’t feel that anxiety of influence Harold Bloom talks about when discussing literary fiction and...
ESSAY: The Ecstasy of Influence by Paul Jessup
One of the things I love about genre is how we embrace our influences. We don’t feel that anxiety of influence Harold Bloom talks about when discussing literary fiction and...

FOR WRITERS: Anatomy of a Sequel by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
Novellas are interesting in that they’re expected to behave more like novels than short stories. I don’t think they should have to, but of course I’m not everyone; I think...
FOR WRITERS: Anatomy of a Sequel by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
Novellas are interesting in that they’re expected to behave more like novels than short stories. I don’t think they should have to, but of course I’m not everyone; I think...

FOR WRITERS: On the Importance of Having Your Book Translated (Not Your Mind-...
Publishing in English is considered the apex of any writer born in a non-English speaking country. It is very much so.
FOR WRITERS: On the Importance of Having Your Book Translated (Not Your Mind-...
Publishing in English is considered the apex of any writer born in a non-English speaking country. It is very much so.

FOR WRITERS: Steampunk as Afrofuturism by Maurice Broaddus
Afrofuturism is hot right now. Ever since Black Panther made its seismic splash, the term has been bandied about and suddenly folks are “discovering” black writers who have been out...
FOR WRITERS: Steampunk as Afrofuturism by Maurice Broaddus
Afrofuturism is hot right now. Ever since Black Panther made its seismic splash, the term has been bandied about and suddenly folks are “discovering” black writers who have been out...

FOR WRITERS: A Carnival of One’s Own by E. Catherine Tobler
Then, I read Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury. Bradbury introduced me to the magic and wonder of traveling carnivals. That sense of wonder never left me, and...
FOR WRITERS: A Carnival of One’s Own by E. Catherine Tobler
Then, I read Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury. Bradbury introduced me to the magic and wonder of traveling carnivals. That sense of wonder never left me, and...