1. Action Central
A great collection of links about writing action scenes. Myths about martial arts, the reality of sword-fighting and even Poul Anderson’s famous “On Thud and Blunder” essay – it’s all here.
2. Planets for Man
Co-authored by Stephen Cole and Isaac Asimov, this book is available as a free pdf and discusses the properties of planets with regard to whether or not humans can first reach and then survive on them.
3. Horror Factor
An excellent collection of online articles offering tips, advice and information on what’s been done to death already. No pun intended. I don’t write in this genre, but some of these suggestions would be useful to any writer wanting to build suspense.
Horror writers use many techniques to heighten the terror in their work. One of my favorites is the bottleneck.
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3 comments:
Thank you for these excellent resources. I'll be reading through all of them to improve my writing. :)
You're welcome, W.B., and thanks for commenting!
Thanx. Especially for that Dole-Asimov book. :)
Much of it holds up very well, though there's a LOT that's been learned about planets since 1964, when that book was published. Its authors quoted an upper limit of 1/7 the Earth's surface atmospheric pressure for Mars' atmosphere, but it turns out to be 1/170 of that.
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