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Cardboard Versus Real, Breathing Characters
Read more / watch…: Cardboard Versus Real, Breathing CharactersIn this excerpt from her workshop, “6 Powerful Exercises To Polish Your Prose,” Managing Editor at Apex Magazine, Rebecca E Treasure, explores how to avoid creating two dimensional characters and make them inhabit your reader’s imagination.
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Characterization By Proxy
Read more / watch…: Characterization By ProxyWatch this excerpt from one of award-winning author KC Grifant’s workshops for Reach Your Apex, “Creating Horror Short Stories That Sizzle And Sell.” KC answers the question, “Why write a short story?” And, bonus, she shares the reasons NOT to write a short story.
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Why Write A Short Story? KC Grifant Answers The Question.
Read more / watch…: Why Write A Short Story? KC Grifant Answers The Question.Watch this excerpt from one of award-winning author KC Grifant’s workshops for Reach Your Apex, “Creating Horror Short Stories That Sizzle And Sell.” KC answers the question, “Why write a short story?” And, bonus, she shares the reasons NOT to write a short story.
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Write Weird West Fiction By Reexamining Old West Mythos – KC Grifant
Read more / watch…: Write Weird West Fiction By Reexamining Old West Mythos – KC GrifantWatch this excerpt from one of award-winning author KC Grifant’s workshops for Reach Your Apex, “Creating Weird West Short Stories That Sizzle And Sell.” KC talks about how Weird West fiction is an opportunity to reexamine the myths we’ve been told about the Old West. She also provides guidelines for assessing if your story is…
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Crafting A Chilling Hook For Your Horror Short Story – KC Grifant
Read more / watch…: Crafting A Chilling Hook For Your Horror Short Story – KC GrifantWatch this excerpt from one of award-winning author KC Grifant’s workshops for Reach Your Apex, “Creating Horror Short Stories That Sizzle And Sell.” KC talks about why the hook deserves your deepest attention, what makes a good hook, and how to craft one.d
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Incidental Worldbuilding Using Details – Lavie Tidhar
Read more / watch…: Incidental Worldbuilding Using Details – Lavie TidharWatch this excerpt from one of award-winning author Lavie Tidhar’s workshops for Reach Your Apex, “Writing The Story: From Conception To Sale.” Lavie talks about using details within brief descriptions to convey outsized information about the world in which your characters live. This is an especially valuable technique for short stories where space is limited.…
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How To Get New Ideas For Science Fiction – Lavie Tidhar
Read more / watch…: How To Get New Ideas For Science Fiction – Lavie TidharThis video clip is an excerpt from one of award-winning author Lavie Tidhar’s workshops for Reach Your Apex, “Writing The Sci Fi Short Story.” Here, Lavie talks about the challenge and importance of coming up with new ideas when writing science fiction. He offers a quick method for generating fresh science fiction story ideas. Lavie…
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How To Start Your Story – Lavie Tidhar
Read more / watch…: How To Start Your Story – Lavie TidharThis video clip is an excerpt from one of award-winning author Lavie Tidhar’s workshops for Reach Your Apex. During the Q&A section, a member of the class asked Lavie about how he likes to start his stories and books. (Our apologies: regrettably, text captions are not available for this video.) Lavie Tidhar’s next workshop
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White Tree
Read more / watch…: White TreeSecond prize winner, “White Tree” from our Weird West Quick Draw flash fiction contest of July 2025, by Jacob Seinemeier.
