ADVICE ON WRITING SPECULATIVE FICTION

Advice On Writing Literary Agents Speculative Fiction Authors Awards for Writers Booksellers & Distributors Blogs & Weblogs Books on Writing SpecFic Conventions Rights & Copyrights Online Dictionaries & Encyclopedias Specialized Search Engines Forumns & Newsgroups Market Resources Market Listings Organizations for Writers Organizations SF/F/H Publications of Interest Marketing & Publicity Research Resources Book Reviews Software for Writers Trade Publications Workshops for Writers World-Building Information Other Writing Resource Sites

Online articles on how to write science fiction, fantasy, and horror from around the globe.  

• Exploring The Dark Side: The Anti-Hero's Journey by James Bonnet
• Advice to New Writers by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• Manuscript Preparation by Vonda N. McIntyre
• Making Monsters by James Patrick Kelly
• The Powers of Myth by Pamela Jaye Smith
• What's the Magic Word: Defining the Sources, Effects and Costs of Magic by Lital Talmor
• The Failure Of Genre Poetry by Bruce Boston
• Advice on Writing by Jeffrey A. Carver
• Writing Tips by editor Ellen Datlow
• A Basic Guide to Horror by Paula Guran
• The Alternate View (aimed at readers and writers of "hard" science fiction) columns by John G. Cramer
• Writing Science Fiction & Fantasy from the SFWA
• Articles on Writing from the Horror Writers Association
• Articles on Writing SF, Fantasy, & Horror from Writing-World.com
• No Bones About it: How to Write Today's Horror - Part I | II | III by David Taylor
• Uncle Orson's Writing Class by Orson Scott Card
• Writing Full Time: A User's Guide by Robert Weinberg
• Writing Science Fiction For Kids by Justin Stanchfield
• The Road to a First Novel by J. V. Jones and Betsy Mitchell
• Imagination's Edge: Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy by Paula L. Fleming
• Rights: What they Mean and Why They're Important by Marg Gilks
• Creating a Realistic Fantasy World by Penny Ehrenkranz
• How to Revise a Novel by Holly Lisle
• Q&A: Point of View by Nancy Kress
• The Fully Realized World by Kate Elliott
• Science in Science Fiction: Making it Work by Joan Sionczewski
• On Writing Fantasy & Science Fiction for Kids by Sherwood Smith
• Landing an Agent by Robert J. Sawyer
• Query Letters: Do them Right! by Lori Foster
• The Writer's Craft by Ben Bova
• Rejection by Patricia Duffy Novak
• Never-Say-Neverisms by William Safire
• Writerisms & Other Sins by C.J. Cherryh
• Essays on Plot by S. Andrew Swann
• Worldbuilding Questions by Patricia C. Wrede
• The Standard Deviations of Writing by Roger MacBride Allen
• Pitfalls of Writing Science Fiction & Fantasy by Vonda N. McIntyre
• Essay on Plot by Damon Knight
• Creating Memorable Characters by John Hewitt
• The Language Construction Kit by Mark Rosenfelder
• How to Write a Synopsis by Rebecca Sinclair
• Hunting a Literary Agent by Chuck Rothman
• Getting that First Horror Novel Published by Michael Marano
• The 39 Steps to Getting Published by Tara K. Harper
• Building New Worlds by Stephen Baxter
• The Fiction Writers Page or Writing for the Web by Crawford Kilian
• Books On Writing Speculative Fiction

BOOKS ON WRITING SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY & HORROR

• How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy by Orson Scott Card
• Worlds of Wonder by David Gerrold
• Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction by Lisa Tuttle
• Conceiving the Heavens: Creating the Science Fiction Novel by Melissa Scott
• Paragons: Twelve Master Science Fiction Writers Ply Their Craft by Robin Wilson
• Borderlands of Science: How to Think Like a Scientist and Write Science Fiction by Charles Sheffield
• On Writing Science Fiction: The Editors Strike Back by George H. Scithers, Isaac Asimov, Darrell Schweitzer
• The Writer's Guide to Fantasy Literature by Philip Martin

More books on writing speculative fiction