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Thinking Up Alien Names

Fantasy and Science Fiction have something in common when it comes to names; they gotta sound unearthly. Something from another culture unknown to this Earth or any of its languages. But how to come up with them? There are numerous ways, and often the best is to just start slapping syllables together and see what …

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Mark’s 10 (11) Tips For Story Writing

I finally found the file I’d created from whence I got these tips from, so rather than piecemeal them, here’s the whole list at once. Then in later posts I’ll get into some specifics for fantasy and SF worlds. These are my 10 basic tips for writing a good story. Be it novel or short …

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Writing Tip: World Building

Okay, so I stopped numbering them already. Moving on, this tip is for those writers of Fantasy and SF in need of designing their own world. Where to start? You have some ideas but which way to go? A step at a time, and the first step is simple. Break out some graph paper, 10 …

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Writing Tip #1: Write the Market or Write Your Soul

The first in an irregular series of posts on what advice and tips I can give out based on my own experience in writing stories and novels. This first one concerns the dilemma of write the market or write your own. My own take on it is this: if you write what the market currently …

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