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Featured Friday: Getting the Story Straight

by PennyFreeman | Sep 19, 2013 | Editor's Notes, Featured Friday, Writing

BY PETE FORD Or, why you need to timeline. Here’s how I develop a story: I get an idea, roll it around in my head for a while, adding more and more detail until, eventually, I reach a point where I can write the story, one short paragraph per scene, from beginning to...

Editor’s Notes: Another Country Heard From

by PennyFreeman | Sep 18, 2013 | Editor's Notes

BY FARIDA MIRZA Summer holidays during my childhood were exciting. In the dark of the night, snuggled under comforters, my cousins and I would huddle around an old aunt and listen to scary stories about witches, ghosts, spirits and fantasies. This was in Hyderabad,...

Editor’s Notes: Editing by Ear

by PennyFreeman | Sep 10, 2013 | Editor's Notes

BY JESSICA SHEN I have a confession to make: I suck at grammar. No, really—I couldn’t tell you a predicate from a preposition, or a split infinitive from a dangling participle. I never did very well on those grammar worksheets in high school where you have to identify...

Editor’s Notes: Diagram This!

by PennyFreeman | Sep 3, 2013 | Editor's Notes, Writing

BY TERRI WAGNER It’s grammar time at the X, and we were challenged to write about the issues that plague us the most—probably hoping we would learn ourselves and be able to pass that along to others. So here goes. Basic sentence structure gets creamed in today’s...

Editor’s Notes: Succumb or Overcome

by PennyFreeman | Aug 28, 2013 | Editor's Notes, Writing

BY MCKENNA GARDNER I have decided that in order to make a character interesting, they must fully commit to their arc of change. And it works both ways – for heroes or villains. Either they overcome their trials, see the light, and lead a fulfilling life, or they...

Editor’s Notes: Target the Trends—or Not

by PennyFreeman | Aug 21, 2013 | Editor's Notes, Writing

There’s a lot of talk about trends in the publishing world, especially within the umbrella of speculative fiction. Harry Potter resuscitated high fantasy and kidlit. Following close on HP’s heels was the paranormal romance explosion, which spawned...