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Something I see fairly often in stories: Some huge life-changing event has happened—whether to the protagonist, to someone close to...

An awful lot of us white sf writers, when we run into issues and arguments about race, give various reasons...

I've rarely been fond of reading stories written in collaboration by authors who took turns alternating sections. It often seems...

Something I see fairly often in submissions: The first paragraph or so contains a capitalized word that, in context, could...

Here's a writing exercise: Write a story in which a male human meets a female human, and neither one falls...

Sumana mentioned Thoughtcrime Experiments in a comment this evening. I hadn't previously heard of it--I'm a little out of touch--but...

I mentioned a few weeks ago that during my Thanksgiving trip to Chicago, I finally made some progress on the...

Mary Anne is running three different three-week online writing workshops this month: one for beginners (both fiction and nonfiction), one...

Wrote most of this entry a week ago, but failed to finish and post it. Headed off to Chicago midday...

I've seen a bunch of stories in the last couple of weeks that boil down to this quasi-plot: Someone encounters...

These exercises are particularly aimed at writers who are white Americans; most of them may not seem especially unusual for...

As Robert Benchley once said: Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is...