Category: articles
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Zach Weinersmith Interview
Lancelot Schaubert — What was the first picture you remember drawing? Zach Weinersmith — Oh wow, that’s a good question. The earliest one I’m sure I can remember would have been, I think, in second or third grade. It was a giant talking bomb insisting that everything would be fine. I believe it was part of a…
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Gabriel Kellman Interview
Lancelot Schaubert — Thanks for joining us, Gabriel Kellman. How’d you get into speculative fiction? Gabriel Kellman — Well, I was a vividly imaginative kid, so I spent a large chunk of my childhood with my brain in other universes. I also read a lot as a kid, and most of it was fantasy or sci-fi, so…
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Gordon Linzner Interview
Lancelot Schaubert — Thanks for joining us, Gordon Linzner. When you were growing up, what was the speculative fiction that dominated your imagination? Gordon Linzner — Hard to narrow down, after so many decades. I’d say initially authors like Isaac Asimov, Fred Pohl, and far too many others to name, I learned to read early on, to…
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Fiction Writing Help: 19 Types of Sensory Details
I’ve offered this bit of fiction writing help to friends in the discord server of the writers here, but I wanted to formalize it as a post for folks to refer back upon. One of those archived posts of mine that to make link copying easier. (It’s getting eerie how often I have to google…
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The Best of CL Moore — Catherine Moore’s empathy
As I continue to work my way through classic science fiction short story anthologies, The Best of CL Moore came up next. The books I borrowed (all at once and for an insanely long amount of time) are almost exclusively first editions from the Brooklyn Public Library. I’ve treated them tenderly. As I’ve gone through…
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Zoe Kaplan interview
Author’s note: Zoe Kaplan has passed at the tragic age of 28. We are hosting an article and an event for her memorial here. If you have a memory to share, please share it. Lancelot Schaubert — Zoe Kaplan, thanks for joining us for the Of Gods and Globes III launch, to which you contributed a…
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Benjamin Chandler Interview
Lancelot Schaubert — Hey there Benjamin Chandler. When was the first time you imagined another world or the implications of a new tech? Benjamin Chandler — Oh, I’m sure it was during childhood, setting up plastic dinosaurs in the garden or playing with toy monsters and spaceships. It wasn’t until high school, though, that I tried…
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Andrew Najberg Interview
Lancelot Schaubert — When was the first time you made up a story, Andrew Najberg? Andrew Najberg — Hm. I started writing short stories in 5th grade. To put it nicely, I was a bit…disruptive…in my classes. I’d just been moved to a new city and school from a place I’d been very happy, and…
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ADHD Background Noise and International Coffeeshops
I’ve talked to several writers lately about ADHD background noise. When does it help? When does it hurt? How do coffeeshops play into that? I’m noticing something simple about myself. I do benefit from coffeeshop noise, but not from active conversations in my own language nearby. Whatever’s happened to my brain since moving to NYC,…
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Shelly Duvall’s FAERIE TALE THEATRE 1983
Here’s the intro to Shelly Duvall’s “FAERIE TALE THEATRE” 1983:
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FC Shultz Interview
Lancelot Schaubert — When’s the first time you played pretend, FC Shultz? FC Shultz — I don’t remember the first time, but I remember the first time I almost stopped playing pretend. This was the mid-90s and I had an awesome metallic blue power ranger where the head flipped to helmet/no helmet. A few bricks in…
