Brian Stableford

Writing is something you have to teach yourself, by practicing long and hard, but I hope this book will help you to practice more effectively.

is to make the process of writing as comfortable as the process of reading.

something you know how to do without having to think consciously about exactly what it is that you are doing. In order to get to that point, however, it may be necessary to go through a phase when you work step by painful step, planning beginnings and endings, thinking about plot structures, considering alternative viewpoints and learning.

We are all fantasists at heart;