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Get feedback on your writing by submitting sections of
your novel for critiques. This is the fastest way to find
weakness in your writing skills.
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See how other writers are presenting their novels by
preparing critiques.
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Participation in our annual short story contest. This can
help you in two ways:
- Recognition on the contest web page.
- Practice in writing concisely and to the point
in few words. This skill in sharpness and crispness can
help you in your novel.
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Participation in our writing exercises.
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Tap into the collective wisdom of our writing community
on how to develop your writing skills.
- Find solutions to writing problems, for
example, the discussions we've had entitled 'thoughts on
thoughts' or 'tense about tense.'
- Solve technical problems, for example,
population density on a spaceship and artificial gravity
-- its dependence on radius from the axis and weird
effects of Coriolis force.
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Learn from the experiences of others on how to
publish your fiction.
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Tap into members reading experience: what's already been
published on some topic, for example, time reversal.
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Learn by teaching. Teaching novices is almost as
beneficial to the teacher as it is to the novice. When
you point out a weakness in someone's writing, you become
more sensitive to that in your own writing.
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All this for only one dollar a week!
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