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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

Macro & Micro Worldbuilding
Rules & Their Discontents
Publishing Guide
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