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Writers of the Future 1st Quarter Winners

Winners Announced: Writers and Illustrators of the Future Contests

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The Winners, Finalists, Honorable Mentions announced for the 1st Quarter Year 38 of the Writers and Illustrators of the Future Contest.

Females Sweep Writers and Illustrators of the Future Contest

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For the first time, all quarterly winners of the L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers & Illustrators of the Future Contests are female.
Cover art, “One of Our Robots is Missing,” for Writers of the Future 35

Writers of the Future Volume 35 Named 2019 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist

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L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 35 has been recognized as a finalist in the 22nd annual Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards.
Playing the odds

Writers of the Future: Playing the Odds

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A friend recently asked me about ways to improve your chances in the Writers of the Future contest. I thought it was a good question, and I thought my answers were a nice summary of lessons learned. So I decided to share them here as a simple set of “rules”
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle at a book signing

Building Plausible Futures by Jerry Pournelle

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This article by Dr. Jerry Pournelle was originally published in Writers of the Future Volume III. Timeless advice then and now.
Agent man

Your First Five Pages

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A writer pointed out today that when you send a novel to an agent or publisher, they normally ask for the first five or ten pages, just so that they can gauge your writing skill. If those pages don’t grab the reader, it won’t sell. So, he wondered, what do I look for in those first five pages?
Jeremy TeG

Meet the Winners – Jeremy TeGrotenhuis – 1st Q 2017

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A couple of years ago I decided to stop blogging in order to focus on improving my fiction, and, well, I just won Writers of the Future, so that seems to have worked.
Image of a knight facing off with a dragon

Parts to a Story – From the inciting incident to the denouement

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I earlier talked about the first four parts of a story—setting,…
Jake Marley on stage with Erika Christensen and Dave Farland

Jake Marley, author of “Acquisition”

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To meet Jake Marley is to encounter joy in its purest form. First…
Image of a knight facing off with a dragon

Why Is It Not an Adventure Worth Telling If There Aren’t Any Dragons?

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Why is it not an adventure worth telling if there are no dragons? This is, of course, referring to the famous Sarah Ban Breathnach quote: "It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons."