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Writing Teaching Substack
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Key Terms

  • Glossary of Creative Writing Terms

  • Point of View Definitions

  • The Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction

  • Turkey City Lexicon & Glossary of Science Fiction Critique Terms

Guides

  • Workshopping Guide

  • POV on POV

  • ABDCE Story Structure

  • On Revision

  • An Info Dump on Info Dumps

  • Freytag Excerpt & Freytag Summary

  • Vonnegut’s Universal Shapes of Stories

Lecture Slides

  • Bloodchild: On Micro-Worldbuilding

  • The Hard and Soft of It: On Macro-Worldbuilding

  • The Reverse Outline

  • Hostile Worlds

  • Princess Mononoke Annotated Timeline


^James Baldwin

^Ursula Le Guin (from Steering the Craft)

^Octavia Butler

^Joy Williams on the short story

^Joy Williams on the short story

^Haruki Murakami

Craft Book Excerpts

  • The Triggering Town by Richard Hugo

  • The Sounds of Poetry by Robert Pinsky

  • 25 Essential Notes on Craft from Matthew Salesses

  • Meander, Spiral, Explode by Jane Alison

  • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders

  • Engineering Impossible Architectures by Karen Russell

  • The Wonderbook by Jeff Vandermeer

^Flannery O’Connor

^Flannery O’Connor

^Anne Carson

^Anne Carson again

^Virginia Woolf

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