Author Monica Valentinelli offers three writing exercises to help get you thinking about science fiction story ideas. Create an alien, destroy the world, and create a fantastical invention. Since many ...

Practice in the original composition of poetry supplemented by the reading and analysis of standard works. Each student is expected to prepare a manuscript each week. There will be a weekly workshop ...

Aspiring writers of "imaginative fiction" — whether science fiction, fantasy or other kinds — are in for a treat: a new update to the fiction-writing guide "Wonderbook," by Jeff VanderMeer (Abrams ...

Is there a creative writer who hasn’t at times wondered what it is that impels thousands of people to spend thousands of hours thinking about and writing made-up stories, that at best will be read by ...

You can’t just tell the reader the emotion your character is experiencing, you have to show them. You do this by creating images using bricks of significant detail. God and the devil are in the detail ...

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When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. CRAFT IN THE REAL WORLD Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping By Matthew Salesses The United ...