In May 2014, Albuquerque Public Library Foundation and Bookworks, a local independent bookstore, launched the author series “A Word with Writers” beginning with George R. R. Martin and Diana Gabaldon. Author Lorena Hughes attended the event at the KiMo Theater.…
Yearly Archives: 2015
A Word with Diana Gabaldon and George R. R. Martin
Tagged with: Diana Gabaldon, Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin, Lorena Hughes, Outlander, Outlander series
Posted in The Writing Life
Posted in The Writing Life
Creativity’s Enemy
The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. ~ Sylvia Plath
The Benefits of a Genre-Specific Critique Group
If you’re blessed, as I am, to have some of the best critique partners…, you undoubtedly realize the benefit of having a watchful pair of eyes to run over your manuscripts, a merciless tongue to point out the weak points,…
The Write Attitude: Ray Bradbury
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. ~ Ray Bradbury
Ten Speculative Fiction Writing Contests: 2nd Quarter 2015
If you’re a speculative fiction writer who has never entered a writing contest, I encourage you to give it a try. It could be the kick-in-the-pants you need to call a story done and send it out into the world.…
Tagged with: Aeon Award, British Fantasy Society Short Story Competition, Colorado Gold Writing Contest, Driftless Unsolicited Novella Contest, flash fiction contests, Garden State Speculative Fiction Writers Short Story Contest, Ink & Insights 2015 Novel Contest, Inkitt Free Fantasy Writing Contest, International Write Fight Short Story Contest, novel contests, short story contests, WOW! Flash Fiction Contest, writing contest
Posted in Writing Contests
Posted in Writing Contests
A Story Plot is a Net
To be stories at all they must be a series of events: but it must be understood that this series – the plot, as we call it – is only really a net whereby to catch something else. ~ C.S.…
Story Promises: What Readers Expect from Fiction
Like many readers, my main reason for reading fiction is to be taken out of my world and into someone else’s. Before I became a writer, I didn’t expend a lot of brain power to decide what stories to pick. I…
10 Reasons Why You Should Write Fan Fiction
We write [fan fiction] because we love these vampires, Doctor Who companions, or demon hunters so much that we can’t stand not knowing what happened in those missing scenes or giving them the chance to make a different or better…
Learn to Write One Brick at a Time
Most writing is not a special gift or talent. Writing is a skill that can be taught. It can be likened to bricklaying; you learn it one brick at a time, and you get better the more bricks you lay.…
New Mexico’s Connection to Science Fact and Fiction
This post was updated on June 14, 2018. Depending on where you’re from, you might not know New Mexico is the birthplace of Demi Moore, Smokey Bear, and the first atomic bomb. It is also the burial place of Billy…
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