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I’m going to confess that I adore ’60s and ’70s movie and television space opera. Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, even Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. Seriously, I can’t get enough. But, dear readers, I’d like your help figuring out what the appeal is.

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Coincidental to last week’s post about how your story is in conversation with whatever else is being published, the old question about whether or not you should write for the market or write what you want to write sprung up on a writer’s forum I’m on. Incidentally, the answer ( Read more... )

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So. I’m still trying to come up with straightforward ways you can analyze a market to see if it’s right for your story or novel. And one thing I’ve found is that there are a lot of editors who have a very strong preference for certain types of endings.  But “happy” or “sad” ( Read more... )

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Recently, I’ve been trying to think of clear, simple instructions I could give people about how to analyze a market to determine if your story is right for them (or so you can develop one that is). I figured this would make a great series of blog posts, each one dedicated to a ( Read more... )