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5 Ways Harlan Ellison Can Help You Improve Your Writing

June 24, 2020 by Robert Wood 1 Comment

5 Ways Harlan Ellison Can Help You Improve Your Writing

Harlan Ellison was a giant of speculative fiction. The author of more than 1,800 stories, essays, and articles, dozens of teleplays and movie scripts, and winner of eight Hugo Awards, four Nebula Awards, five Bram Stoker Awards, and two World Fantasy Awards, among others, Ellison is remembered both for his own writing (including the short stories ‘I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream’ and ‘“Repent, …

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Are You Experimenting With New Weird Fiction?

September 30, 2019 by Robert Wood Leave a Comment

Are You Experimenting With New Weird Fiction?

Not long ago, we discussed the subgenre of bizarro fiction, identifying what makes it unique and separating it from similar movements such as transgressive fiction and new weird fiction. This time around, we’re zeroing in on that final category of writing and asking, ‘What is the new weird?’ It’s a question we’re going to answer in full, but it’s also worth taking a moment to identify why that …

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Understanding Pulp Will Make You A Better Author

August 14, 2019 by Robert Wood 4 Comments

Understanding Pulp Will Make You A Better Author

Pulp writing isn’t quite a subgenre and it isn’t quite a medium. Yes, it once had stylistic and even aesthetic boundaries, but the sensibilities behind those boundaries have outlived them by decades, and pulp is now more an approach to storytelling than anything else. Happily, it’s an approach that has a lot to teach modern authors, and if you can adjust to the pulp way of thinking, you’ll have …

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