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Weekly Roundup: March 16-20, 2020


Another week has come and gone, and that means it’s time for your favorite recap! As always, we’re bringing you reviews of genre greats, special guests, awesome advice, and the great escapism that the speculative genre provides — especially needed during these trying times. While you may be asked to stay homebound, that doesn’t mean you can’t go anywhere. Stories…

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The Same But Different: An Approach for Evaluating Originality with Scott H. Andrews


The Odyssey Writing Workshop is a six-week course that takes place every summer on the campus of Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire. Like many contributors at Speculative Chic, I had the privilege of attending, and I graduated in 2005 with today’s guest writer, Scott H. Andrews, the World Fantasy Award-winning editor of Beneath Ceaseless Skies. You may recognize Scott’s…

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Make Your Stories Stand Out with Emotional Authenticity with Scott H. Andrews


In 2005, I was privileged to attend the Odyssey Writing Workshop at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire. My particular class (not that I’m biased or anything) had this amazing synergy together, and one of my fellow writers was Scott H. Andrews. Scott, ever the champion of literary adventure fantasy, went on to create Beneath Ceaseless Skies, which just won…

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Guest Post: How to Create a Novel from a Short Story with Linden A. Lewis


Have you ever wanted to take a vacation from life itself and spend six weeks doing nothing but writing? Do you write fantasy, science fiction, horror, or something in between? The Odyssey Writing Workshop allows you to do just that, and the application for the 2019 workshop is April 1st (no, that’s not an April Fool’s Day joke). Why apply?…

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