Today’s guest post is from John Joseph Adams–editor of Lightspeed Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, and more than a dozen anthologies–and one of his oft-published authors, Jake Kerr. If you’ve ever wondered what goes on between an author and an editor from a rewrite request to publication, you’re about to get a behind-the-scenes look that is invaluable [...]
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Mastering Multiple Point of View Characters–a guest post
I’m super-excited to share this guest post with you guys–Garrett and I were college buddies who reconnected years later through Twitter and a shared love for spec fiction. He has a brand new novel coming out March 5th called Dreamwielder–check it out! Novels with multiple viewpoint characters are common enough, but for some reason you [...]
Brand New Year
Carrie Cuinn is an author, editor, bibliophile, modernist, and geek. You can find her work online at www.carriecuinn.com and follow her on Twitter @carriecuinn. A week into the new year and for some of us, the shine is already wearing off. Sure, we have a slightly higher digit at the end of the date, but [...]
Writing About Fighting
One of the most helpful writing panels I’ve ever been to was at VCon in 2008, called Writing About Fighting. I learned so much from the panelists, got inspired to finally start taking martial arts and have had since had the honour of joining this annual panel at VCon. I’ve asked two of the panelists [...]
Working With An Agent: Personality Counts (guest post by Mercedes Yardley)
Today’s guest post comes from the talented, kind, and very lovely Mercedes Yardley! She graciously made our blog a stop on her tour promoting her new short story collection, Beautiful Sorrows, which you should probably go buy and then devour like a box of tiny dark chocolates. Me: Hello, Brilliant Agent? Brilliant Agent: Hello, Talented [...]
For a short story writer, what is success?
Here’s another guest post from editor/poet/story spinner Kaolin Fire. His advice just might light a fire under you to get writing short stories! What is success, for a short story writer? Your first sale? Pro publication? Joining the SFWA, HWA, or other such organization? It’s easy to attach a lot to those moments, looking forward; [...]
Guest Post from Tracie Welser: Writing Conventions and How to Survive (an Incomplete List)
Tracie Welser is a graduate of the 2010 Clarion West Writers Workshop. Her recent publications include “A Body Without Fur” (May/June 2012 Interzone) and “Her Bones, Those of the Dead” (forthcoming in Outlaw Bodies). You can find her online at This Is Not An Owl and twitter: @traciewelser. “Writing, at its best, is a lonely [...]
Exploratory Writing–a guest post by Kaolin Fire
Here’s a guest post from the fantastic writer/poet/editor/code dude/creator Kaolin Fire. If you’ve ever wondered what it means to write by the seat of your pants, this is the way he does it: Hello. My name is Kaolin, and I’m a pantser. I think that means the same thing for everyone, pretty much, but I was [...]
It’s Not a Race
Chris East is a writer, editor, reviewer, bassist, and general media junkie, who grew up in western New York and gradually migrated west to Los Angeles. He has a special studies writing degree from New York University, SUNY at Fredonia, and Michigan State University and attended the Clarion and Taos Toolbox writing workshops. His fiction [...]
Masters of the Controverse: Why Authors Should Speak Their Minds
Today’s post comes from frequent guest and friend of the Inkpunks, James Sutter. Enjoy! A while back, I was having a conversation with a well-known game designer friend of mine. He was bemoaning the fact that he has to constantly hold himself back from expressing his true views online, making sure to keep his public [...]
