Fantasy Author's Handbook

Last week I read H.P. Lovecraft’s The Dunwich Horror for at least the third time. This time I read it in the beautiful Design Studio Press edition illustrated by French artist Fr...

Last week we looked at the concept of the Long Goodbye, but can that same sense of “okay, the story’s over already,” be flipped into what I guess we’ll call the Long Hello? A sense of “okay, get on with the story already”?

Oh, boy… absolutely....

Endings are hard.

You may have written 100,000 words (or more!) full of intricate worldbuilding, fully realized characters, clear and well-motivated conflict, all rendered in prose that is as beautiful as it is readable. Then you have to figure out how to wrap all that up so that the worldbuilding drives to a conclusion that could only happen in this world, every ch...

We should know by now: anytime someone maintains that a technology is inevitable, they’re asking us to give up any say we might have over that technology—asking us to give our ability to question, to alter, to refuse; they’re asking us to abandon our agency, the control of our future.

—Audrey Watters: