Speculative fiction writer, translator, and editor

Wordsmithing

Books and other tools for writing and translating. Focuses on genre.

Wonderbook - Cover

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Tailored specifically to the needs of genre writers, Jeff VanderMeer’s Wonderbook is a lushly illustrated and approachable book on the craft of writing that centers first and foremost the necessity of viewing creation as play and exploration, not just a profession.

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Steering the Craft - Cover

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A slim volume, Steering the Craft drills down to the sentence-level of craft and explores how to capture voice and atmosphere through word choice. Required reading if you want to make your prose more lyrical.

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A Poetry Handbook - Cover

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An approachable introduction to the building blocks of poetry.

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Ulysses logo

Ulysses logo

Absolutely indispensable tool for writing. Ulysses is an advanced library for sheets written in plain text or Markdown, removing all the distractions that come with other word processing software like Scrivener and Microsoft Word. Ulysses also has robust export features that make publishing your work easy. Unfortunately, Ulysses is currently only available for Mac.

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