M.C. Beaton’s Top Ten Writing Rules Do not overwork your manuscript, striving for perfection. Avoid literary snobbery. Don’t try to appear more erudite than you are. Believe passionately that what you have written is good because you may be in for a bumpy ride. It is important that you learn to take rejection and […]
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The Brain: The Greatest Mystery of All?
The Brain: The Greatest Mystery of All? I still remember the day I fell in love with the alluring, impenetrable mystery of the brain.I was sixteen, during a humid July in summer school. (I had actually chosen to go to summer school, obviously prone to such nerdy infatuations.) Flipping through my Psychobiology text, I came […]
The Recipe for a Great Short Story
The Recipe for a Great Short Story (Editor’s Note: John Floyd has written over a half dozen stories for the Strand. His stories are an editor’s dream, they are written cleanly, always have a twist, and contain so much in most of the time under 6,000 words. We’re proud that John has been nominated for […]