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Tuesday Therapy: Taking Five Unrealistic Steps

You’d think most speculative fiction writers would have a handle on being unrealistic… After all, we spend as much time as possible inventing things, living in imagined worlds, and bringing impossible...

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Tuesday Therapy: The Art and Obligations of the Favour

I’ve been running these Tuesday Therapy posts since November, when I was inspired by my dear friend Angela’s comment that “you can only eat an elephant one bite at a time.” Man, that is such a...

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Tuesday Therapy: What Happens Next?

Foz Meadows is the author of Solace and Grief and The Key to Starveldt, YA urban fantasy novels that take readers into a version of Sydney filled with vampires, secret medieval dungeons and a...

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Tuesday Therapy: Finding Courage

Julie E. Czerneda is a best-selling, award-winning author of 14 novels and dozens of short stories — and, in her ‘spare’ time, she has edited over 15 anthologies (wow!) She is also one of the...

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Tuesday Therapy: Inhabiting Your Characters’ Skin

Juliet Marillier needs little introduction, really. Since the publication of her first novel, Daughter of the Forest, in 1999 she has published over a dozen fantasy novels, which combine historical...

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Tuesday Therapy: A Few Keys to the Kingdom

Before reading this week’s Tuesday Therapy session, wander over to Jack Dann’s website and have a gander at his publications pages. Here, I’ll make it easy: clickity-click here and here. Gobsmacking,...

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Tuesday Therapy: Know Your Rights

I’ve said it once and I’ve said it again (and again and again): I’m a huge fan of Peter M. Ball‘s short fiction. Pete’s subject matter, his tone, his concise sentences, his poignant and...

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Tuesday Therapy: The Business Side of Art

I’m so happy that Nicole Murphy has joined us for this week’s Tuesday Therapy session. Not only is she the author of the Dream of Asarlai trilogy (Secret Ones, Power Unbound and Rogue Gadda) and over...

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Tuesday Therapy: Just Keep Swimming

I’ve been slogging at two of the longest chapters in the novel in the past week, so today’s Tuesday Therapy is totally self-serving. Basically, I want to go back and edit the whole book thus far. I...

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Wednesday Writers: Knowing What You Write

Today I made a guest appearance over at David McDonald’s ‘Wednesday Writers’ series, where I harped on about one of my pet topics: reading like a writer. Most of us are compelled to write because we...

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