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The Secrets Index
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This index is subject based and
lists all the articles through the current issue of The Secrets.
The articles are listed by name and then followed by (i/p) where
i is the issue number and p is the page number.
The index is current through issue
57.
Books for Writers
- I'm not sure... (0/3)
- The Secrets Five-foot Shelf of Books (17/5)
Career Advice
- A Quick Note (31/5)
- Another Podcast Update (32/6)
- Bringing It to Market (15/3)
- Don't You Wish Your Genre Was Hot...(56/1)
- Enough Hats for a Hydra (7/7)
- Impress for Success (22/6)
- Is it Commercial? (55/1)
- Judging Work (19/6)
- My Genre, Myself (3/2)
- Name Game (by Emily Devenport) (33/6)
- Outstandingly Mediocre (26/4)
- Rock Solid Careers (18/5)
- Ruthless Editing (by Michelle M. Welch)
(27/6)
- Seven Aspects of Successful Writers (10/3)
- Technology and Opportunity (29/1)
- The Scifi Podcast Network (30/5)
- The Writer's Life (0/4)
- The Critical Sting (5/6)
- Trust Yourself (27/7)
- What's In a Name (by Simon Hawke) (7/4)
- Writing on Demand (14/3)
Character Names
Characterization
- Blitzkrieg Characterization (12/3)
- Character Creation: an example (24/1)
- Characterization Techniques, Part One
(21/3)
- Characterization Techniques, Part Two
(22/3)
- Characterization Techniques, Part Three
(23/3)
- Characterization: The Soul of the Art
(1/2)
- Killing Characters (16/2)
- Love, Romance, Sensuality, Sex and all
that stuff... (Part One) (1/40)
- Love, Romance, Sensuality, Sex and all
that stuff... (Part Two) (1/41)
- Making Monsters, Part One (57/1)
- On Heroes (11/3)
- Why won't those pesky characters do what
I want? (2/3)
Editorial material
- A Few Quick Notes (7/16)
- A Word of Thanks (43/7)
- In My Humble Opinion (3/6) (8/6) (9/6)
(11/6) (20/16)
- It's Been A Year! (25/7)
- Living and learning (2/5)
- Postscript to Issue Zero (0/5)
- Random Thoughts (24/5)
- World Fantasy Convention (15/6)
Getting Started
- Is There A Story There? (48/1)
- Regaining Focus (23/1)
- The Art of Observation (49/1)
- When Will I Be Ready To Write? (22/1)
Learning from a Master
- Edgar Rice Burroughs (6/4)
- Arthur Train (20/14)
Plotting
- The Art of Plotting Part One (51/1)
- The Art of Plotting Part Two (52/1)
- The Art of Plotting Part Three (53/1)
- The Art of Plotting Part Four (54/1)
- To Plot or Not? (1/1)
- Do I really have to outline? (4/2)
Publishing Industry
- One Eye Shut: Why publishing as we know
it is doomed (7/9)
Rejection
- Dealing with Rejection (4/5)
Rules of Writing
- #1: Show Don't Tell (2/1)
- #2: Double Duty (3/1)
- #3: Continuity Bolts (4/1)
- #4: He said, she said. (5/1)
- #5: Research (6/1)
- #6: Point of View (7/1)
- #7: Write before rewriting (8/1)
- #8: Use All the Senses (9/1)
- #10: Define the Conflict (10/1)
- #9: Sympathetic angles (11/1)
- #11: No Easy Effects (12/1)
- #12: No Coincidences (13/1)
- #13: Choreograph it (14/1)
- #14: Full Effort (15/1)
- #15: Learn to Love Something (16/1)
- #16: Description (17/1)
- #17: Present Tense (18/1)
- #18: Names and Initials (19/1)
- #19: Sentences (20/1)
- #20: Never Quit (21/1)
Storybuilding
- The Content Vector Theory of Fiction (20/4)
- Numbers, characters and plot (47/1)
- Pacing (45/1)
Technique Tips (see also Rules of Writing)
- A Writer's Style (25/5)
- Building Dynamic Tension (3/5)
- Buttons (2/2)
- Closer to Literature (10/6)
- Developing a Voice (14/6)
- Drifting From The Outline (18/2)
- Engagement (42/1)
- Expectations of Series (46/1)
- First Novel Problems (8/3)
- Full Service Stories (12/5)
- I've got it here somewhere (organizing
information) (5/5)
- Mapping Reader Expectations (25/1)
- More Engagement (43/1)
- More First Novel Problems (13/6)
- Name Recognition (13/3)
- Numbers, characters and plot (47/1)
- Pacing (45/1)
- The Perfect First Chapter (17/3)
- Portals of Imagination (50/1)
- Quick Tip (Making a book a page-turner)
(1/4)
- Reader Resistance (9/3)
- Reading Critically (4/4)
- Red Flag Words (2/5)
- The Sacred and Profane (44/5)
- The Society for the Elimination of Was
(11/2)
- Thinking Ahead: On the Fly Foreshadowing
(26/1)
- Working Fast (44/1)
- Writing Action, Part One (19/3)
- Writing Action, Part Two (20/11)
Where to write
World Development
- The Devil's In The Details (Part One)
(5/3)
- The Devil's In The Details (Part Two)
(6/3)
- World Building Part One: A Sense of Place
(27/1)
- World Building Part Two: Magic and High
Tech (28/1)
- World Building Part Three: Power Dynamics
(29/3)
- World Building Part Four: How Old This
World? (30/1)
- World Building Part Five: Religion (31/1)
- World Building Part Six: Of Elves and
Aliens (32/1)
- World Building Part Seven: Language, Society
and Culture (33/1)
- World Building Part Eight: More Language,
Society and Culture (34/1)
- World Building Part Nine: World Tone (35/1)
- World Building Part Ten: World History
(36/1)
- World Building Part Eleven: Yet More World
History (37/1)
- World Building Part Twelve: The Fine Print
(38/1)
- World Building Part Thirteen: An Example
of a World (39/1)
Writer's Block
- The Perennial Problem (by Michelle M.
Welch) (20/3)
- Writer's Block (0/2)
Writing Speed