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Speculative Fiction Writing Articles

Welcome to Spectacular Speculations speculative fiction writing articles. These articles are all advice on how to write good speculative fiction stories.  Topics will include setting, character, plot, pacing and other elements of a good story.  Many of these articles will be useful to any fiction writer, but they are geared primarily to speculative fiction authors.  The articles are arranged alphabetically, so browse through and we hope you find something that is useful, informative and entertaining.

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Article List

Author Habits

A Writer Is Born

Become a Better Writer

Best Selling Titles

Better Writing Through Bad Books

Beyond the Spellchecker

Breaking Writer's Block

Bring it to a point

Character Viewpoint

Creating Good Dialogue

Creative Writing Is Easy With Mind Maps

Curing Writer's Block

Dazzling Sentence Openers

Don't Waste Words

Dialogue - Break It Up

Edit Out Adjectives

Ending Your Story

Fiction From Experience

Fiction Writing: 3 Crucial Points For Your Main Character

Final Ten Secrets For Writing Success

Finding Time To Write

First Person Narration

Five Steps to Writing a Novel

Flashbacks

Getting Your Events in Order

How Shall I Begin?

How Do You Write Horror and Dark Fantasy

How to Become a Successful Writer

How to Begin Your Novel

How to Create Characters Who Come Alive

How to Plan the Synopsis For Your Novel

How to Survive a Good Review

How to Write Your Book

Leaping Into the Unknown Rarely Works

Looking Back For Story Ideas

Map Making For Fantasy Writers

Make Dialogue Breathe Life into Your Characters

Mark Twain, Steven King, Hell and Adverbs

Misused Words

Nine Grammar Myths

Point of View

Possessive Nouns

Query Packages

Science Fiction Writing:  10 Cliches to Avoid

Short Stories Vs. Novels

Short Story Mistakes

Six Easy Tips For Writing Better Fiction

Six Quick Writing Errors to Watch For

Six Ways to Break Writer's Block

Starting Your Novel

Story Endings

Story Sense and Logic

Story Time

Super Villains

Ten More Powerful Secrets

Ten Powerful Secrets

The Backstory

The Big Lie In Speculative Fiction

The Garden of Fiction

The Perfect Story

Three Fiction Writing Concerns For the Author

Three Ways to Control Your Readers' Mind

Title Your Story Well

Twisting the Ending

Two Common Errors

What Do You Do When It's Over?

Write What You Read

Writing Dialogue

Writing For Anthologies

Writing Horror