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A little later tonight (Thursday, Nov 5), I'm going to start sending in a
series of items about writing fiction for the mass market. Some of these I
posted a few days ago, provoking a remarkable amount of e-mail asking for
copies of this or that posting. So I decided I'd start from the top and go
through the whole batch in a couple of stages.

Altogether I'll be sending 17 separate "handouts" from my commercial fiction
course. They range from good work habits to the reading of contracts.
Please--don't read them as divine revelation. They come out of my experience,
which may not be anything like yours or that of other writers. But if they
save you some time, energy and grief, I'll be glad.

The files total about 180K--enough for a short book. I'll number each one as
Fiction Advice plus a number and keyword. If you miss some of them, I'll
*try* to post them directly, but sometimes people's addresses don't make
sense to my computer...

Why am I doing this? Well, a year or so ago someone e-mailed me with that
very question. I thought for a minute and then replied to this effect: When
you're young, and you think you have the talent, you wonder how you can make
the talent serve you. When you're older, you wonder how you can serve the
talent. This is some small part of my service. God bless, work hard, write
honestly, take pride in your craft!

Crawford Kilian
Communications Department
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver, BC Canada V7G 1H7
Usenet: Crawford_Kilian@mindlink.bc.ca
Internet: ckilian@first.etc.bc.ca