First
So you want to write a story? Things to think about before
writing the first story ...Background...Ideas...Fanfiction...
Second
In the Beginning... Story or Novel? Basic Writing Tools
Third
Writer's Block and Rewriting
Fourth
Workshops and Critique Groups...
Fifth
Pitfalls of the Publishing World: Vanity Presses...Publishing
scams...Writing contests, good and bad...
Sixth
(external site)
How
Do I Get an Agent? (Note: I did not write this, it is
a superb posting on the site of Neil
Gaiman with excellent advice from an editor at Tor Books,
Teresa
Nielsen Hayden, so believe what they say!
And
an esay I could have written, so close to my own experience
as it is, by Justine Larbalestier, who wrote the wonderful
Magic
or Madness. Specifically for young writers anxious to
publish NOW, read Too
Young to Publish on her blog.
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Wren
Update
Crown Duel, Wren's World, and Sartorias-deles--which one belongs where and why
Fanfiction
Policy
Policy on fanfiction using my worlds and characters. Some
authors object to fanfiction altogether. I do not--I think
it a flattering sign that people wish to experience my world
for a little longer by posing stories there, and I'm grateful that people have enough interest to want to imagine their own
characters in my world, or what mine might have done. I do ask that you place the "good faith" disclaimer
on your work. The characters and world are mine--I've been
working on them for over forty years, and CD is only a tiny
portion of the main whole. I don't read fanfics, partly
because I am always behind in projects due to tough dayjob
demands, partly because I often find tiny errors of fact
that the authors couldn't possibly know about, not having
access to my atlas, my timelines, and all 135 of my notebooks--so canon is reality for me!
Links
to Fan Sites
A new and beautifully designed Crown Duel site, with links
to some fanfic, Fellowship
of the Tower
A
lovely site, and newly removated (July 2005) with lots of
information garnered from questions posed on the Yahoo discussion
group of Crown Duel, Colorwoods
Another
lovely site, Mistical
Skies, with a message
board,
This
nifty site, Remalna-City,
is back, and links all the other sites
Madeleine
has this fascinating site here
Here
are some thoughts on Writing
Fantasy and Science Fiction for Kids
Not
a link to my stuff, but a review site from a Christian perspective
set up by two young readers (the Christian perspective here
appears to be from the Roman Catholic point of view): Here
Reactions to the Harry Potter books (added to over the years
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