A reader writes to ask: If you don't mind, I have a very quick question for you. You say that italics should never be used, and italicized passages should be underlined instead. But what if a story has long passages that are meant to be italicized, as a
Welcome to More on Formatting, my new blog on all aspects of manuscript formatting. For well over a decade my formatting guide "Proper Manuscript Format" has been available online, with the result that I've fielded hundreds of questions on the subject from writers around the English-
For the advanced player, you can up the stakes of the novel game I outlined yesterday. Instead of having an absolute page number as a predetermined goal for each day's play, you can set each day's goal to be the previous day's ending page
Maybe a lot of writers are like this, but I find it almost impossible to maintain forward momentum on a project as big as a novel without breaking the process down into manageable chunks. If I tell myself I need to write a complete novel in three or four months—
I just did a word count on the novel I (to all intents and purposes) started writing yesterday. Here's what WordPerfect told me: Words: 1000 Sentences: 64 Two perfect cubes. I'll bet that doesn't happen again for the remainder of the book.
I loved this LCD Soundsystem song even before I saw the video, but now I love it even more.
My first professional story, "From Our Point of View We Had Moved to the Left" (F&SF, February 1993), was set on Inauguration Day, 2009. Thank God the real 1/20/09 is an infinitely more hopeful occasion than the one in my story. https://www.shunn.
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Many of you may have heard already, but John Klima has started an online book club dedicated to reading and discussing all twelve volumes of Gene Wolfe's Solar Cycle over the course of this year. I'm one of the board admins, together with Christopher Rowe and
My virtual contribution to the January CD Mix of the Month Club was Heavy Fuel.
RIP Freddie Hubbard, 1938-2008. He was probably the best trumpeter from the hard-bop era next to Miles Davis, though some poor choices starting in the '70s derailed a career that could have made him as much of a household name today. But whatever. I'm going
My virtual contribution to the December CD Mix of the Month Club was Street Cred: Brad Mehldau Plays the Popular Favorites of Yesterday and Today!.
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