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Writer Winners – 4th Quarter

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The 4th and final Quarter of the Writers of the Future Contest have just been announced and you can find the winners here.
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Pepe, the dog and Daniel Davis, bestselling author.

Self-Advocacy and Publishing

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Once you have written that story what do you do with it? Obviously you are going to head over to the submit page for Writers of the Future, but after that, what? ...
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Pepe, the dog and Daniel Davis, bestselling author.

The End

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One thing can be worse than the empty page—as you come to the last pages of your Writers of the Future entry, or that book you’ve been planning on submitting to Tor—and that is a full page that leaves the reader unsatisfied...
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Pepe, the dog and Daniel Davis, bestselling author.

Developing Some Character

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Sentences can be passive or active depending on how you construct them. Characters too, can be passive or active based on how you write them. Are they watching things happen around them or are they doing something? ...
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Down the Research Rabbit Hole

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Writing Tips #7 in the Series Writing fiction relies on not…
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Pepe, the dog and Daniel Davis, bestselling author.

A Writer’s Schedule

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Writing Tips #6 in the Series “Seek freedom and become captive…
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Pepe, the dog and Daniel Davis, bestselling author.

Writer Winners – 3rd Quarter

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Announcing the Writers of the Future 3rd Quarter Writer Winners, Finalists, Semi-Finalist and Honorable Mentions
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The Strong Antagonist

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Storytelling has grown from the first years of Writers of the Future. One of the biggest things that science fiction and fantasy storytellers have learned is to create a compelling protagonist. No longer is it enough to fight evil because it is evil and the character is good. Now, a good story must build up the protagonist....
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Pepe, the dog and Daniel Davis, bestselling author.

Exposition – “It’s a Trap!”

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When preparing to submit to Writers of the Future, or to a publishing house, how can you make your piece stand out?
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Pepe, the dog and Daniel Davis, bestselling author.

The Infinite Loop: Editing & Rewriting

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Writing Tips #3 in the Series There are two main jobs as a writer. The…
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Pepe, the dog and Daniel Davis, bestselling author.

2nd Quarter Illustrators of the Future Winners

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Announcing the 2nd Quarter Illustrators of the Future Winners
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Pepe, the dog and Daniel Davis, bestselling author.

The Elements of Scent

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Elements crucial to most any medium of storytelling require that who, what, where, when and why are addressed. While they are a good construct, what is really going to breathe life into a world are sensory details.
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Writers of the Future Workshop

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The famous Writers of the Future Workshop, previously only provided…
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The Distinction of a Writer OR Rule #1 of Writing

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Welcome to the Writers of the Future blog; Tips on Writing. You will find many great tips to help you tone up your writing, both for submission to the contest and just in general for submitting for publication. As with any great narrative, we are going to start at the beginning, in this case, with Rule #1 of writing.
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Writer Winners – 2nd Quarter

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Writers of the Future 2nd Quarter Winners Finalists, Semi-Finalists…
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Pepe, the dog and Daniel Davis, bestselling author.

Announcing the Illustrators of the Future Winners!

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Announcing the first quarter Illustrators of the Future Contest winners.
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Fellow artists and close friends since first grade. (Left to right) Rachel Heissner and Megen Nelson

Finding the Meaning in Art – My Story

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A few weeks before I got the call telling me that I’d won a place in Illustrator’s of the Future, I’d been considering giving up. On college, on my dream, on everything.
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Sharon signing a copy of her award-winning story for William Pomerantz, VP Special Projects at Virgin Galactic

The Practice of Writing

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I first heard about the Writers of the Future contest in 2012, when I went to a writers workshop and two women I met in the class told me about it. I'd been writing about three years at that point (focused exclusively on novels), and had only written two short stories in my life.
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Auston Habershaw pointing at Illin, the location for his award-winning story.

Dreaming Up Fabulous Places

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Picture me: I’m nine years old, lying on my back beneath the skylight in my bedroom, rough carpet biting into my shoulders. I’m reading The Hobbit, enthralled. It’s summer. My mom is somewhere downstairs, yelling for me to get outside and play. I pretend I don’t hear her.
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The Journey to Win

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It was in the late summer of 2011 when I first found Illustrator of the Future Contest. I was in a great stress caused by not being able to find a decent place to live less than a month before my years-long master program started and trying to adapt to a whole new environment and American culture which was the first foreign country I had ever traveled to.
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Pepe, the dog and Daniel Davis, bestselling author.

From Stray Dog to Bestseller

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Zu'ar is the antagonist in my short story "The God Whisperer." He's violent. He's territorial. He displays aggression towards other gods, and he shows open contempt for the "man" of his house. He's also a former stray, in desperate need of a caring home.
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