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What Makes an Unfilmable Novel?

A Counter Craft Year-End Roundup

The Only Sure Thing with AI Is Writing Will Get Blander and the Rich Will Get Richer

Processing: How Elisa Gabbert Wrote Normal Distance

Three Great Books You Might Have Missed (Plus One to Put on Your Radar)

Clearing Up the Clutter: On Removing "Trite Physicality" from Stories

The Spectrum of Screams: Horror Terms 101

Data Won't Save Art

Understanding the Reader Without Pandering to the Reader

Genres Are Historical and Cultural, Not Scientific

No, Most Books Don't Sell Only a Dozen Copies

House of the Discourse

Why Do People Think Scandalous Novels Couldn't Be Published Today?

MFA vs. IRS

Outsourcing Originality

Processing: How Vauhini Vara Wrote The Immortal King Rao

Why Does It Take So Long to Publish a Book?

When Will Novels Fix Society Already?

Is Genre Defined by Content or Worldview?

How Chandler Klang Smith Writes with Robots

The Classics Are Whatever We Want Them to Be

The Rise of the Robot Writers?

Alexander Chee on How to Write a Novel

Let Me Tell You About "Show Don't Tell"

Conflict Is Only One Way to Think About Stories

The Grotesque Sublime

The One Rule of Fiction Writing

Processing: How Matt Bell Wrote Refuse to Be Done

When Science Fiction and Fantasy Envisions Life Beyond Capitalism

What We Lose When We Lose Literary Magazines

Do Blurbs Actually Work?

Some Words About Word Counts

Why You Need to Read Fiction To Write Fiction

Notes on the Speculative Epic

Worldbuilding and the Whims of History

How Writing Is Like Playing Hades