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Index
Also in the Now Write! Series
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Editor’s Note
UNDERSTAND YOUR SPECULATIVE GENRE
STEVEN SAUS | Where Does He Get Those Wonderful Ideas? Making Speculative Fiction Speculative
JULE SELBO | Choosing Your Speculative Genre
GLENN M. BENEST | Writing Horror
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY (edited with exercise by Laurie Lamson) | Introduction to the 1831 Edition of Frankenstein
KATE BERNHEIMER | The Grimm Art of Fairy Tales
VINCENT M. WALES | Credibility
LISA RENÉE JONES | How Do Sub-genres Impact Your Creation of a Hero?
PIERS ANTHONY | Wood Knot Dew
IDEAS AND INSPIRATION
AIMEE BENDER | The Secret Room
KIM DOWER | Steal from Your Dreams with a Twist of Fevered Writing
BRIAN JAMES FREEMAN | Writing About Your Childhood
BRITTANY WINNER | How to Channel Your Imagination
VONDA N. MCINTYRE | An Exercise in Dreamsnake
KEALAN PATRICK BURKE | Walking the Dog
SABRINA BENULIS | Magical Inspiration
ELLIOT LAURENCE | Unlimited Ideas
STEVEN BARNES | Creativity on Demand
STORY DEVELOPMENT AND PLOTTING
DIEGO VALENZUELA | The Constant Writer: How to Plot an Entire Story in Minutes and Never Run Out of Ideas
DANIKA DINSMORE | Put It in Space
XAQUE GRUBER | Call of the Wylleen
SEQUOIA HAMILTON | The Joy of Six
JAMES WANLESS, AKA “CAPTAIN PICK-A-CARD” | Tarot for Writers
MICHAEL REAVES | Freelancing Sci-Fi TV
RAYMOND OBSTFELD | When the World Turns to Shit, Why Should I Care? Character Arc in Dystopian Stories
LOIS GRESH | Story Endings: Where Monsters Lurk
MICHAEL DILLON SCOTT | Begin at the End . . .
HIGH STAKES AND TERROR
WILLIAM F. NOLAN | Of Heroes and Villains
CHRISTINE CONRADT | The Eleven Tenets of Fear
DERRICK D. PETE | Anatomy of Choice
TODD KLICK | How Spielberg and Shakespeare Grab ‘Em in Five
SARA B. COOPER | Bump in the Night
BEN THOMPSON | Diabolical Evil for Beginners
EDWARD DEGEORGE | Seeking the Darkness
LISA MORTON | The Setting in Horror
JAN KOZLOWSKI | Bringing Horror Home
BUILDING WORLDS
E. E. KING | Fact into Fiction
DAVID ANTHONY DURHAM | Think Historical
MARK SEBANC | In Xanadu . . . Grounding the Fantastic
MELISSA SCOTT | Humming the Sets: World Building That Supports the Story
L. E. MODESITT, JR. | System Rules
JANICE HARDY | So, What Do You Know? Deepening Your World Building Through Point of View
KIJ JOHNSON | Feel Things Out
CHRIS HOWARD | Building Worlds Without Boring Your Readers or Becoming the Minister for Tourism
NANCY KRESS | Follow the Money
THEME AND MEANING
HARLAN ELLISON® | First, There Was the Title
PEN DENSHAM | Writing into the Spiritual Unknown
DOUGLAS MCGOWAN | Catching Up with the Future
MARC SCOTT ZICREE | Creating Your Own Science Fiction
RICHARD BLEILER | Teaching Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers
BRIANNA WINNER | Understanding Yourself Better Through Creative Writing
DEVORAH CUTLER-RUBENSTEIN | Giving Sentience to Ordinary Objects—An Object’s Purpose
WENDY MEWES | Leaping into Landscape
ERIC STENER CARLSON | Finding Your Spirit in Speculative Writing
MEMORABLE HEROES, VILLAINS, AND MONSTERS
DIANA PETERFREUND | Start with the Name
KAREN MCCOY | How Characters Drive Plot
ERIC EDSON | How We Feel a Story
BRUCE MCALLISTER | The Black Unicorn
JEFFREY A. CARVER | Create a Power!
DEREK TAYLOR KENT | FUNdamentals of Writing
JESSICA PAGE MORRELL | The Villain’s Handbook
STACEY GRAHAM | Oh, the Humanity: What Makes Monsters Tick
MARK SEVI | The Uncanny Valley
BRAD SCHREIBER | Metamorphosis
COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS
REGGIE OLIVER | “He Do the Police in Different Voices”
JAMES G. ANDERSON | More Than Words Can Say
GABRIELLE MOSS | Creating Convincing Communication Between Humans and Supernatural Creatures
VANESSA VAUGHN | What’s Love Got to Do with It?
MARIO ACEVEDO | Love Between the Species
SCENE CONSTRUCTION AND STYLE
JACK KETCHUM | Economy
RAINBOW REED | Using Your Senses
J. MICHELLE NEWMAN | Make It Real
LILLIAN STEWART CARL | Describe a Spiral Staircase
JODY LYNN NYE | Breaking the Was-ing Habit (and Making Friends with Your Active Verbs)
SCOTT RUBENSTEIN | Surprise in the Twenty-fourth Century
LANCE MAZMANIAN | Break the Compass
SIMON CLARK | Paint It Dark: Creating an Eerie Atmosphere and Foreshadowing Ominous Events
JOHN SKIPP | The Choreography of Violence
PRACTICING YOUR CRAFT
RAMSEY CAMPBELL | What You Don’t Need
DAVID BRIN | A Long and Lonely Road
JOHN SHIRLEY | Writing Is Seeing
JAY LAKE | Flashing Yourself
NICHOLAS ROYLE | Go for a Walk
JEREMY WAGNER | The Art of Being Horrifically Prolific
DANA FREDSTI | Surviving Writer’s Burnout
PETER BRIGGS (edited by Laurie Lamson) | How to Molotov Cocktail the Thorny Problem of Adaptions, Speculative and Otherwise (The Screenwriting Anarchist’s Way)
SHARON SCOTT | Writing the Series
JOE R. LANSDALE | A Writer Writes
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