For most writers, especially those who write speculative fiction get so caught up in the cerebral aspect of creating fantasy worlds that it becomes easy to forget the basic truth of storytelling. Articulating ideas is highly dependent on one’s ability to affect an individual’s senses and perception with nothing more…

Su lives in a futuristic society where the military conscripts gifted children with ability to magically affect technology. These children can do extraordinary things like teleport and materialize weapons at will. Dubbed clovers, these gifted children are caged and isolated from other humans. The military fears that anyone for whom…

Are you afraid of messing around with tropes? What about your plot? Is it too dark? Too light? Is your main character too perfect? Too flawed? Are you afraid to bore, perturb, or even disgust? Tell me the truth: How many stories or articles did you read this week that…

Rejection bites. That’s the plain and simple truth. Writers pour our hearts into stories. We revise the heck out of them. Then we submit/query and repeat until hopefully, someone finally thinks that we have something worth publishing. Unless you’re some sort of literary genius whose work always gets accepted on…

Let’s forget for a minute, the grand old argument of whether or not there really is such a thing as Writer’s Block. Let’s acknowledge, though, that as writers, we all have moments when we fall into creative slumps. From time to time, we find ourselves down in the dumps and…

Some time ago, writers all over the Internet got outraged over an article declaring that unless you write every day, you’re not a real writer. I absolutely do not share this article’s sentiment. After all, writing is something you do out of love, not some twisted sense of obligation. Different…