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Nonfiction Title:
Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror: Speculative Genre Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers • nonfiction by Laurie Lamson
Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)
- xv • Editor's Note • essay by Laurie Lamson
- 3 • Where Does He Get Those Wonderful Ideas? Making Speculative Fiction Speculative • essay by Steven Saus
- 7 • Choosing Your Speculative Genre • essay by Jule Selbo
- 14 • Writing Horror • essay by Glenn M. Benest
- 18 • Introduction to the 1831 Edition of Frankenstein • essay by Mary Shelley (variant of Introduction (Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus) 1831) [as by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley]
- 23 • The Grimm Art of Fairy Tales • essay by Kate Bernheimer
- 27 • Credibility • essay by Vincent M. Wales
- 29 • How Do Sub-genres Impact Your Creation of a Hero? • essay by Lisa Renee Jones
- 34 • Wood Knot Dew • essay by Piers Anthony
- 39 • The Secret Room • essay by Aimee Bender
- 42 • Steal from Your Dreams with a Twist of Fevered Writing • essay by Kim Dower
- 45 • Writing About Your Childhood • essay by Brian James Freeman
- 47 • How to Channel Your Imagination • essay by Brittany Winner
- 51 • An Exercise in Dreamsnake • essay by Vonda N. McIntyre
- 55 • Walking the Dog • essay by Kealan Patrick Burke
- 59 • Magical Inspiration • essay by Sabrina Benulis
- 62 • Unlimited Ideas • essay by Elliot Laurence
- 66 • Creativity on Demand • essay by Steven Barnes
- 73 • The Constant Writer: How to Plot an Entire Story in Minutes and Never Run Out of Ideas • essay by Diego Muñoz Valenzuela?Diego Munoz Valenzuela[as by Diego Valenzuela]
- 76 • Put It in Space • essay by Danika Dinsmore
- 79 • Call of the Wylleen • essay by Xaque Gruber
- 83 • The Joy of Six • essay by Sequoia Hamilton
- 87 • Tarot for Writers • essay by James Wanless
- 91 • Freelancing Sci-Fi TV • essay by Michael Reaves
- 95 • When the World Turns to Shit, Why Should I Care? Character Arc in Dystopian Stories • essay by Raymond Obstfeld
- 101 • Story Endings: Where Monsters Lurk • essay by Lois H. Gresh [as by Lois Gresh]
- 104 • Begin at the End ... • essay by Michael Dillon Scott
- 109 • Of Heroes and Villains • essay by William F. Nolan
- 112 • The Eleven Tenets of Fear • essay by Christine Conradt
- 116 • Anatomy of Choice • essay by Derrick D. Pete
- 121 • How Spielberg and Shakespeare Grab 'Em in Five • essay by Todd Klick
- 125 • Bump in the Night • essay by Sara B. Cooper
- 129 • Diabolical Evil for Beginners • essay by Ben Thompson
- 135 • Seeking the Darkness • essay by Edward DeGeorge
- 137 • The Setting in Horror • essay by Lisa Morton
- 141 • Bringing Horror Home • essay by Jan Kozlowski
- 145 • Fact into Fiction • essay by E. E. King
- 148 • Think Historical • essay by David Anthony Durham
- 151 • In Xanadu ... Grounding the Fantastic • essay by Mark Sebanc
- 155 • Humming the Sets: World Building That Supports the Story • essay by Melissa Scott
- 158 • System Rules • essay by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
- 161 • So, What Do You Know? Deepening Your World Building Through Point of View • essay by Janice Hardy
- 165 • Feel Things Out • essay by Kij Johnson
- 168 • Building Worlds Without Boring Your Readers or Becoming the Minister for Tourism • essay by Chris Howard
- 174 • Follow the Money • essay by Nancy Kress
- 181 • First, There Was the Title • essay by Harlan Ellison
- 187 • Writing into the Spiritual Unknown • essay by Pen Densham
- 190 • Catching Up with the Future • essay by Douglas Mcgowan
- 193 • Creating Your Own Science Fiction • essay by Marc Scott Zicree
- 198 • Teaching Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers • essay by Richard Bleiler
- 203 • Understanding Yourself Better Through Creative Writing • essay by Brianna Winner
- 207 • Giving Sentience to Ordinary Objects—An Object's Purpose • essay by Devorah Cutler-Rubenstein
- 212 • Leaping into Landscape • essay by Wendy Mewes
- 215 • Finding Your Spirit in Speculative Writing • essay by Eric Stener Carlson
- 223 • Start with the Name • essay by Diana Peterfruend
- 227 • How Characters Drive Plot • essay by Karen McCoy
- 231 • How We Feel a Story • essay by Eric Edson
- 235 • The Black Unicorn • essay by Bruce McAllister
- 240 • Create a Power! • essay by Jeffrey A. Carver
- 243 • FUNdamentals of Writing • essay by Derek Taylor Kent
- 246 • The Villain's Handbook • essay by Jessica Page Morrell
- 251 • Oh, the Humanity: What Makes Monsters Tick • essay by Stacey Graham
- 253 • The Uncanny Valley • essay by Mark Sevi
- 257 • Metamorphosis • essay by Brad Schreiber
- 261 • "He Do the Police in Different Voices" • essay by Reggie Oliver
- 264 • More Than Words Can Say • essay by James G. Anderson
- 269 • Creating Convincing Communication Between Humans and Supernatural Creatures • essay by Gabrielle Moss
- 273 • What's Love Got to Do with It? • essay by Vanessa Vaughn
- 277 • Love Between the Species • essay by Mario Acevedo
- 283 • Economy • essay by Jack Ketchum
- 285 • Using Your Senses • essay by Rainbow Reed
- 289 • Make It Real • essay by J. Michelle Newman
- 292 • Describe a Spiral Staircase • essay by Lillian Stewart Carl
- 296 • Breaking the Was-ing Habit (and Making Friends with Your Active Verbs) • essay by Jody Lynn Nye
- 298 • Surprise in the Twenty-Fourth Century • essay by Scott Rubenstein
- 303 • Break the Compass • essay by Lance Mazmanian
- 306 • Paint It Dark: Creating an Eerie Atmosphere and Foreshadowing Ominous Events • essay by Simon Clark
- 310 • The Choreography of Violence • essay by John Skipp
- 317 • What You Don't Need • essay by Ramsey Campbell
- 321 • A Long and Lonely Road • essay by David Brin
- 326 • Writing Is Seeing • essay by John Shirley
- 330 • Flashing Yourself • essay by Jay Lake
- 333 • Go for a Walk • essay by Nicholas Royle
- 335 • The Art of Being Horrifically Prolific • essay by Jeremy Wagner
- 339 • Surviving Writer's Burnout • essay by Dana Fredsti
- 343 • How to Molotov Cocktail the Thorny Problem of Adaptations, Speculative and Otherwise (The Screenwriting Anarchist's Way) • essay by Peter Briggs
- 350 • Writing the Series • essay by Sharon Scott
- 354 • A Writer Writes • essay by Joe R. Lansdale
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