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Welcome back to Writing Prompt Wednesdays! Sometimes the best way to learn things about your characters is to write about them in different situations and see how they react. We...

For the past few Shadowrun Sundays, we’ve briefly discussed worldbuilding (Part I and Part II here). Today we’re wrapping up with the central imperative of every game system: A Higher...

As the publishing industry changes with the advent of electronic books, so too does the electronic submissions process. Gone are the days of deciding between A4 and 8.5″ by 11″,...

While writing today’s Writing Prompt Wednesdays post, I was watching Sherlock Holmes. Now that this property is in public domain, everyone wants to write stories for Sherlock, or a Sherlock-like...

Today we’re taking a page from reality for Writing Prompt Wednesdays. Whether the tax man is Cuthulu’s right hand monster, the United Nations are paying annual taxes to an alien...

Today’s Writing Prompt Wednesday takes an old trope and gives it a new twist. Many of us have heard the whole “Are we there yet?” routine. Not only is it...

The best writing advice ever is the advice that comes from our own writing experiences. Authors, agents, and editors can talk left and right about the best and worst ways...

My apologies for missing 2 weeks of Writing Prompt Wednesdays. The workload was a little crazy plus I went to a writers retreat with limited internet access. Today’s Writing Prompt...

Today’s writing prompt is about a quick author trick for setting up exposition in an opening hook. FYI: This is a starting point, only. An interesting fact I’ve noticed about...

Today’s writing prompt is another “Day in the Life” kind of prompt. The first one got a lot of likes on the Urania page, so let’s see how this one...