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23Mar/10Off

Another Round of How-To, Part 2

This is part two of a three-part journal on How to Write Tales of Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Edited by J. N. Williamson, a collection of How-To articles by some of the best horror writers, circa 1987. Part one covered chapters 1-8.

In my first post, I mentioned how strikingly similar the advice is to that found in On Writing Horror, another collection of How-To articles by some of horror's best writers circa 2007. I've still found this to hold true. I don't mean that as a slight against either work, as the essays in both are unique to the authors. For me, this reinforces that the advice found within each work has a certain timeless quality to it even though markets have changed.

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1Mar/10Off

Another Round of How-To

This is the first of three posts on How to Write Tales of Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Edited by J. N. Williamson. The book is a collection of How-To articles by some of the best horror writers, circa 1987.

Late last year I did a series of posts on On Writing Horror, another collection of How-To articles by some of horror's best writers circa 2007. Twenty years separate the publication of these two books, but so far I haven't found anything other than the market survey that really differentiate the two. I've commented before that information repeated across authors is usually good advice, and I think that's still true. But, I'm a little disappointed that I haven't found anything new here. Yet.