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Wouldn’t you just know it? The minute I announced I was taking down The Art & Craft of Fiction Online Magazine, I started putting together the book I’m writing based on the old magazine articles and, lo and behold, I have too many for one book but not enough for two.

Right now I have a total of 95 articles organized and linked to through a Table of Contents.

So instead of just taking the magazine down, I’m going to be restarting it with a vengeance. I have some twenty or twenty-five articles I need to write before fall, which means I’d better get cracking. But I’m not going to call it a magazine anymore, when really it’s going to be a lab for the new books, with you guys as my guinea pigs. Squeak loud! Squeak long! Let me know what you think, and help me shape and direct my two new books before they become books.

And feel free to bring your own experiments for the rest of us, like Chris brought us that story last summer so we all got to hash over the finer points of dialect.

Welcome to the laboratory for:

The Art & Craft of Story: 2nd Practitioner’s Manual
The Art & Craft of Prose: 3rd Practitioner’s Manual

There are also a number of pieces on the old magazine now that will not appear in the books, as they include fragments of copyrighted material used here under the Fair Use Provision of Copyright Law intended only for periodicals like magazines, newspapers, and blogs, so the magazine’s the only place you’ll ever be able to find those.

Whether you’re writing your Work in Progress, revising and reworking it, or thinking of hiring an independent fiction editor, The Art & Craft of Fiction Laboratory is intended to be the cheapest possible way for you to get the help you need.

In The Art & Craft of Fiction Laboratory, I’m writing in greater and greater detail about the many essential aspects of creating fiction, as introduced in my first book on writing, The Art & Craft of Fiction: A Practitioner’s Manual.

You’ll find a warm, welcoming space here in which to study and discuss the craft of fiction alongside other serious writers, both published and unpublished. It’s not a free-for-all, like so much of what goes on in the blogosphere. It’s a friendly backwater of the Internet, where fellowship, in-depth analysis, and helping each other progress is the one overriding aim—where your questions and ideas are always taken seriously, your voice is always welcome, and your own sincere efforts to master the craft are always in good company.

Read a sample: Meeting across the river.

Become a member of A. Victoria Mixon, Editor’s Art & Craft of Fiction Laboratory:

Be sure to follow the link to http://victoriamixon.com/art-and-craft-of-fiction/ after you’ve become a member, so you can register! (Please be aware that if you register in the middle of the night U.S. Pacific Time it will take me a few hours to wake up and approve your registration.)

And please contact me if you have any problems.

Thanks—I look forward to seeing you in The Art & Craft of Fiction Laboratory.

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