Welcome to the 12th Issue of James Gunn’s Ad Astra
March, 2023 – We hope you enjoy your visit to James Gunn’s Ad Astra. If you would like to be part of our future issues, please read our submissions guidelines and join the conversation.
by Jalyn Fiske, Kristen Koopman, and Jean Asselin
As writers ourselves, we understand the energy and passion that goes into writing stories, and we want you to succeed.
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Blog
On Revising
The morning slog through a max of 300 words of a first draft. Ploughing a rocky field with a Neolithic ploughshare, stopping every foot or so to pry up a boulder and roll it over to the growing drystone field wall.
On Rewriting Speculative Fiction
The challenge peculiar to SF: You’re trying to show, not tell. But how do you “show" a world that, to one degree or another, is unknown, unique, and may even operate by physics that are different from the laws your reader subconsciously applies?
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