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

In The Art & Craft of Fiction Magazine, I elaborate every week in greater and greater detail upon the principles and guidance I introduce in The Art & Craft of Fiction: A Practitioner’s Manual –>

You’ll find a warm, welcoming space here in which to study the craft of fiction with other serious writers, both published and unpublished.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 study, 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.

I write a new article focused in detail upon a different aspect of the craft once a week, with approximately 125 articles already up. I answer questions and discuss particular issues upon request. It will probably look like a blog for awhile, and it doesn’t have ads. It’s also cheap: $20 for a subscription to all articles for the year from October 2009 to October 2010.

Read a sample: Meeting across the river.

It’s a little different from a blog in that each article is thought out and written with professional care and the high quality you expect from an online magazine.

It’s a little different from a magazine in that it covers topics in-depth and conversationally, eschewing the standard surface mode of rehashing the same old Five Paths to Success and Publication you can get anywhere, to explore the deeper substrata of craft that professionals continue to scratch their heads over throughout their careers, in the manner of a book on craft.

It’s a little different from a book in that it welcomes you into the world of professional storytellers as a participant, no matter what your experience level, allowing readers to discuss the points raised in each article with each other and with me, the way you do in a workshop.

It’s a little different from a workshop in that there’s a clear direction to each article, and they’re all written by me. It’s aimed at teaching readers what you need to know, step-by-step, about this craft of fiction we all love, like a class.

And it’s a little different from a class in that it just goes on and on, covering the aspects of the craft from characterization to structure to dialog and description and action and exposition, rambling from point to point, examining and analyzing published fiction, revisiting topics when it seems like a good idea from new and different perspectives, often according to the on-going discussion in comments as well as particular issues brought up by readers for particular reasons addressing your own particular manuscripts and concerns.

It’s a club of fellow writers without any pressure to so much as admit you’re a member unless you feel like joining in the conversation.

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