Archive for December, 2011

David B. Coe December 23rd 2011

A Writer’s Letter To Santa

Dear Santa: First of all, I want to assure you that I have been very good this year.  Really.  I’ve done A LOT of writing; I’ve put my butt in my chair just about every day.  (My butt’s actually a little flat and wide at this point for all the writing I’ve done.  But that’s [...]

James Alan Gardner December 21st 2011

The Skill List Project: Scene Beginnings and Endings

This is another post in The Skill List Project: an attempt to list all the skills involved in writing and selling fiction, particularly science fiction and fantasy. In the past few posts, we’ve been looking at writing scenes. We’ve talked about the flow of plot from scene to scene and the need for conflict, difficulties [...]

S.C. Butler December 15th 2011

Secrets of Writing – Pacing

Pacing is one of the most important techniques in a writer’s tool chest, especially if you write narrative.  It is also one of tools least understood by newbies – at least that was my experience when I was an active member of the Online Writers Workshop. What is pacing? you ask.  Pacing is the art [...]

Alma Alexander December 5th 2011

Fairy Tale Business

It’s instructive, right now, to compare the methods of building on fairy tale tropes as practised by the TV shows “Once Upon a TIme” and “Grimm”. Let me just say at the outset that I started watching both, from the pilot on up. I lasted two episoes with “Once Upon A Time.” I am STILL [...]

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David B. Coe

David B. Coe is the author of eleven fantasy novels, including the books of the LonTobyn Chronicle, Winds of the Forelands, and Blood of the Southlands. He has also written the novelization for the Ridley Scott production of ROBIN HOOD, starring Russell Crowe, that is due out in May 2010. In 1999 he received the Crawford Fantasy Award, given annually by the IAFA to the best new author in fantasy. He has a Ph.D. in United States environmental history and lives on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee with his wife and daughters. Visit site.

James Alan Gardner

James Alan Gardner got his M.Math from the University of Waterloo with a thesis on black holes...and then he immediately started writing science fiction instead. He's been a finalist for the Hugo and Nebula awards, and has won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award as well as the Aurora award (twice). He's published seven novels (beginning with "Expendable"), plus a short story collection and (for street cred) a Lara Croft book. He cares deeply about words and sentences, and is working his way up to paragraphs. Visit site.

S.C. Butler

Butler is the author of The Stoneways Trilogy from Tor Books: Reiffen's Choice, Queen Ferris, and The Magician's Daughter. Find out what Reiffen does with magic, and what magic does with him... Visit site.

Alma Alexander

Alma Alexander is a Pacific Northwest novelist whose new YA trilogy, "Worldweavers", debuted with "Gift of the Unmage" in March 2007 ("Spellspam" follows in 2008, and "Cybermage" in 2009). Her other books include the internationally acclaimed "The Secrets of Jin Shei". Visit site.

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