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• 3 • Alex Bardy Says ... • essay by Alex Bardy
• 4 • Story Openings • essay by Aaron Miles
• 8 • Writing Is Mostly Psychology • essay by Tricia Sullivan
• 13 • News from Orbit (Focus 64) • [News from Orbit] • essay by Terry Jackman
• 14 • Getting Through the First Draft • essay by K. R. Green
• 16 • My Novel Writing Process, aka Writing with Baby • essay by Aliette de Bodard
• 18 • Poems from the Stars (Focus 64) • [Poems from the Stars] • essay by Charles Christian
• 18 • Hiding Mirrors • (2015) • poem by Bethany Powell
• 18 • Sweet Tooth • (2015) • poem by John Reinhart
• 18 • The Reading • (2015) • poem by Samson Stormcrow Hayes
• 18 • Keys • (2015) • poem by Edward Palumbo
• 18 • Black Suit • poem by Paul Smith
• 19 • "a hundred light years" • poem by Joshua Gage
• 19 • "Saturn's rings ..." • poem by Tracy Davidson
• 19 • "hell-bent" • (2015) • poem by Susan Burch
• 19 • "terrible twos" • poem by Guy Belleranti
• 19 • "Aussie latency" • poem by Rhonda Parrish
• 19 • Detention at the Mage Academy • (2015) • poem by Alex Plummer
• 20 • Productive Writing • essay by Adrian Faulkner
• 22 • The Tyranny of the First Draft • essay by Karen Miller
• 24 • Walking the Walk: Advices to Writerses Who Are Alive and Have a Life Also • essay by Tricia Sullivan
• 26 • The Eight Stages of the First Draft • essay by Jen Williams
• 28 • How to Get an Agent in 530,000 Easy Steps • essay by David Gullen
• 30 • Glass Ceilings of Science Fiction • essay by Rosie Oliver
• 32 • R O I (or Adventures in Self-publishing) • essay by Robert Harkess