BETH HUDSON

This is a hard question, because tastes differ a lot from writer to writer and from reader to reader. Between Hemingway and Melville is...

Once you’ve hammered out your consistent rules for magic, you need to write it so the reader believes in it. And that means...

Aside from gym courses in archery and fencing when I was in college, I have never studied any form of fighting. The fencing class gave...

Whenever someone writes a story, it’s about something. That may seem self-evident; obviously a story has a plot and characters whose...

Hating the writing I produce: this is one of my biggest stumbling blocks. I’ve only now come to understand that this is a common...

I am the Narrator. It’s my job to create the story and to decide what the characters do and don’t see. I have to decide whose eyes the...

I’m a big fan of workshopping, even though my experiences doing so have been decidedly mixed. Starting at age fourteen, and for close to...

Many years ago, at a science fiction convention, I opened my mouth to ask Poul Anderson an insightful question about his use of mythic...

There is a great diversity of authors out there, and since there is no one way of writing, we all start with different things;...

I wrote my first long piece of prose in seventh grade. I had aspirations of novel writing before that, but at twelve years of age, I...