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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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A Writer’s Schedule

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Writing Tips #6 in the Series “Seek freedom and become captive…
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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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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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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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2nd Quarter Illustrators of the Future Winners

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Announcing the 2nd Quarter Illustrators of the Future Winners
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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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Announcing the Illustrators of the Future Winners!

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Announcing the first quarter Illustrators of the Future Contest winners.
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.
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.
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.
Jessica Tung Chi Lee

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.
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.
Steve Pantazis, national bestselling author

The Win

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It was 2009 when I first entered the Writers of the Future (WotF)…
Rob Prior at Comic Con 2015.

Rob Prior, International Award-Winning Artist, Named as Judge for Contest

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International Award-Winning Artist, Rob Prior, Named as Judge for Worldwide Illustration Contest
Man reading Writers of the Future on a tablet.

Why do people read?

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Ask a number of book readers why they read and you will inevitably get a variety of answers. So recently we did just that. We surveyed over a hundred book readers to find out what made them pick up a book and read.
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Writers of the Future Vol 31 a National Bestseller

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The latest edition in the Writers of the Future anthology hit Publishers Weekly's Sci Fi bestseller list at #7 on their w/e July 6, 2015. This official makes all 13 of our published writer winners and 12 illustration winners national bestsellers!