Yatterings

Making Light (yup, I’m catching up on my news feeds) has this advice about writing:

When we’re teaching SF&f writing at Viable Paradise, one of the things we always tell our students is to get the story started. Limiting yourself to dicking around with scene-setting and character introduction for the first few chapters gets you nowhere.

Making Light is the blog of Patrick Hayden and Theresa Neilsen Hayden, both editors at Tor and active in a wide variety of things.