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If you're going to write genre, with rich world-building and complicated future technology and deep magic systems, it's going to happen sooner or later: you'll need to explain what a Florznap is. Whether it's describing why your hero's sword is different from what the reader thinks of when they imagine a sword, or the details …
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Verisimilitude is one of the most powerful devices at the author's disposal. The ability to create a world that feels real can separate a good story from a great one. Readers are much more easily drawn into a world with systems and rules they already comprehend, and characters that feel real are characters who can …
***WARNING: The following will contain a significant spoiler for the film Pacific Rim: Uprising and minor spoilers for a lot of other films*** There's a character in the film who is possessed by an ill-defined alien intelligence, and you know this because at one point he starts talking in a voice rougher and deeper than …
What are you working on? Is it finished? When can we see it? Do you have a day job? Are you published? But seriously, what do you do for money? Are you also looking for a real job? Is your book any good? How long did it take you to write it? Are you published? …
DAVID WELLINGTON 