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.…
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Ten Speculative Fiction Writing Contests: 2nd Quarter 2015
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…
When the Magic Comes…
We…don’t know what it is that sometimes comes to make our books alive. All we can do is to write dutifully and day after day, every day, giving our work the very best of what we are capable. I don’t…
Tagged with: creativity, encouragement to write, imagination, importance of reading, Madeleine L’Engle, motivation to write, power of words, words change the world, writing quotes
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Posted in Quotes
Will You Survive the Zombie Apocalypse?
Today is one of those Fridays. I need to come up with some clever and catchy title to categorize it. Something that rhymes with procrastination…I’ll work on that another day. The internet is filled with too many addictive distractions, so…
Tagged with: Procrastination, The Walking Dead, Ultimate Zombie Apocalypse Survival Quiz, zombie apocalypse, zombie apocalypse quiz, zombies
Posted in Just Because
Posted in Just Because
Reading Inspires Writing
We write by the light of every story we have ever read. ~ Richard Peck Image “Astronaut Floating With Balloons” courtesy of Victor Habbick / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
KL Wagoner 