The Best Christmas on Mars
What can you hope to gain by entering a writing contest? IFW Instructor and contest judge Lynn Smith shares why entering a contest can improve your work.
Characters Help Your Readers Stay Afloat
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > No genre of fiction is more dependent on suspension of disbelief and verisimilitude than science fiction. In the last post, we talked about how conventional structures ground unconventional stories. This week, let’s…
Creating Science Fiction Characters: Don’t Let the Genre Upstage Them
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > The genre of speculative fiction is filled with amazing things to catch the reader’s imagination: space ships, alien colonies, wizard schools, monsters and more. And science fiction is a subset of speculative…
Breaking Down Science Fiction To Find Your Place
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Science fiction is the marriage of science and imagination. The genre has been popular in film, television, graphic novels and fiction for young people (mostly middle grade and up). It is a…
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