COURSE DESCRIPTION:If you’re currently writing or want to write a middle-grade or young adult novel, this is the course for you! Margo has written both, edited tons, taught workshops on how to write these, and shared novels in classrooms and assemblies with kids, too. In this course, y...
As with any novel, you'll want to construct a satisfying plot, develop interesting characters, and write polished, vivid prose. 1.Remember that science fiction is about ideas. Different from other genre (类型), a good science fiction story depends on a great imagination. 2. In sci-fi, ...
A writing resource for Science Fiction writers featuring creative science fiction ideas, writing prompts, short stories, and advice.
Robert Borski did not begin to write poetry until he was well into the middle of his sixth decade—hence his frequent description of himself as a late-blooming child prodigy—but since then has had well over 300 poems published in such venues as Asimov's, Dreams & Nightmares, Strange Horizo...
To write deeply emotional fiction, we have to be able to access the wisdom of both mind and heart—and the best medium between the two is the body. Even back at my most emotionally unintelligent, I always knew I could identify my best story ideas byhow viscerally mybodyresponded to them....
Write about what you know This is the advice which every writer should pay attention to and last year nearly everyone who wrote for us did exactly that. Love family problems with friends --- these were the main subjects of the stories. However you need to turn ordinary situations into somet...
Have a historical fiction book that you're dying to write? This article will walk you through the basics of what you need.
Sometimes a novel’s originality is less a matter of affirmation than an act of refusal. Refusal to go along with received ideas of how to tell a story or create verisimilitude or even how words signify. Sayingnoopens up new space, or at least points towards what has been neglected by co...
Write about an AI or person trying to inject a ‘human touch’ into their work. Science Fiction –49 stories Start your story with a character looking closely at something, or someone. They can't quite decide if what they're looking at is natural, or man-made. ...
The third course is a seminar, team-taught, on shorter texts. In all courses, students write about their own translation process, the original author, and their ideas about the story to be translated, and review other students' work. A 19-item bibliography is included. (MSE) 展开 ...