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Tag Archives: ted chiang
Recent Writing/Publishing Related Links, 3/20/2013
Recent writing and publishing links of interest, including how to deliver information, how to break out of slush piles, some market resources, neuroscience, and gender breakdowns in publishing.
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Notes from the Year’s Best Fantasy and Science Fiction 2010 Panel, Norwescon 34
Works mentioned in the Year’s Best Fantasy and Science Fiction 2010 Panel, Norwescon 34, Seattle, Washington, April 22, 2010. Participants: Lou Anders, Brenda Cooper, Gordon Van Gelder, Cat Rambo, Sam Sykes. Continue reading
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Tagged ben aaronovitch, benjamin hale, best of 2010, brenda cooper, catherine fisher, clay griffith, devon monk, elizabeth bear, elizabeth moon, eric flint, gordon van gelder, hess bullington, ian mcdonald, ian tregillis, ilona andrews, james enge, jim butcher, john scalzi, jon armstrong, jon sprunk, jonathan strahan, kristine kathryn rusch, lauren beukes, lou anders, m.k. hobson, mark hodder, mary robinette kowal, mike resnick, n.k. jemisin, nnedi okorafor, norwescon 34, paolo baciagalupi, patricia briggs, sam sykes, susan griffith, ted chiang, year's best 2010
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Why Titles Matter
The writer can’t afford to throw away the possibilities of the title, there’s just too much chance to set the hook in the reader there with the right cast. Make your lure beautiful, jingly with poetic principles, flashy or intricate or if you’re among the most daring, something so simple and beautiful in its form that it’s irresistible. Load it with the sensory or weight it with muscular verbs, but make it pull the reader in so your first three paragraphs can render them helpless and absorbed and yours for the story. Continue reading
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Tagged alfred bester, algis budyrs, allamagoosa, anton lee baker, arthur c. clarke, avram davidson, c.m. kornbluth, david langford, david levine, elizabeth bear, eric frank russell, fritz leiber, hugo awards, michael swanwick, neil gaiman, robert bloch, ted chiang, titles, will mcintosh, writing
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