Character Building Workshop
How to Create Characters That Are Likable, Engaging, and Keep a Reader Glued to the Page
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- By Cat Rambo
Description and Delivering Information for Genre Writers
How to Deliver Information and Build a World Without Slowing Down Your Story
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- By Cat Rambo
Different Kinds of Love
Writing Non-Romantic Relationships
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- By Cat Rambo
Dunking Your Reader in the Details
Toolsets for Creating an Immersive World
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- By Cat Rambo
Eating Your Words: Writing about Food
In this class, you’ll learn how to write about food and its preparation, consumption, and clean-up in a way that will bring more depth to your fiction. Among the topics we’ll cover are the science of taste and factors beyond it, writing about the creation of food, how your character acts and feels towards food, how food can evoke history, the power dynamics of food, and the challenge food in speculative fiction poses for the writer.
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- By Cat Rambo
Epistolary Fiction
Fiction Written as a Series of Documents
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- By Jamie Lackey
Getting Your Pod On: Podcasting for Writers
Everything you need to know about being on or creating your own podcasts.
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- By Alan Bailey
Hex Engines & Spell-Slingers: Write Steampunk/Weird Western
Learn how to create engaging, innovative, and creative stories and novels in two of the hottest subgenres around!
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- By Cat Rambo
Historical Research for Writers
Whether your setting is historical, secondary, or even contemporary or far future, the past can enrich your story.
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- By Kate Heartfield
Literary Techniques for Genre Writers
How to Use Literary Techniques to Take Your Work to the Next Level
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- By Cat Rambo
Moving From Idea to Finished Draft
Different Kinds of Story Inspiration and What to Do With Each Of Them
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- By Cat Rambo
Old Stories Into New
Retelling Fairy Tales, Myths, Legends, and Other Narratives
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- By Rachel Swirsky
Principles for Pantsers
Navigational Tips for the Unguided Journey
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- By Cat Rambo
Reading to an Audience Workshop
How to Read Your Work To Other People And Make Them Enjoy It
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- By Cat Rambo
Rewriting, Revising, and Fine-Tuning Your Fiction
How to Rewrite and Know When a Story is Ready to Go
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- By Cat Rambo
SEO Basics for Writers
Using Search Engine Optimization to Market Your Books
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- By Cat Rambo
The Basics: A Toolkit for Writing Fiction
An overview of fundamental concepts, illustrated through simple, joyful exercises.
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- By Kate Heartfield
The Power of Words
Everything Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers Need to Know about Linguistics at the World-building and Prose Level
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- By Juliette Wade
To Space Opera and Beyond with Ann Leckie
Learn how to plot and write your own space opera works with one of the masters of the field
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- By Ann Leckie
Twenty(ish) Types of Terror
Horror Subgenres and How to Generate Ideas for Them
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- By Cat Rambo
Writing Flash Fiction
How to Write and Sell Flash Fiction
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- By Cat Rambo
Writing Interactive Fiction
For game writers and those interested in trying interactive writing, at any stage of their careers.
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- By Kate Heartfield
Writing Your Way Into Your Novel
How to Find Your Path By Putting Words Down
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- By Cat Rambo
Writing in the Cracks
Finding Time for Writing When You Have None
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- By Diane Morrison