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September 22, 2022

An Interview with the Dream Foundry’s Writing Contest Judge Sarah Gailey

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September 15, 2022

An Interview with the Dream Foundry’s Writing Contest Coordinator Julia Rios

September 1, 2022

Audio File Formats for Podcasters

August 25, 2022

Time Manipulation in Audio Fiction

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August 4, 2022

Writing Prose in Game Worlds

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June 23, 2022

Publishing Checklist: Making Books

March 10, 2022

Mountains Made from Pebbles – Low-Pressure Workflow

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January 13, 2022

A Bookseller’s Guide to Comp Titles: Hand-Selling Yourself

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January 6, 2022

A Bookseller’s Guide to Comp Titles: Browsing for Your Book

January 4, 2022

Dream Foundry 2021 Art Contest Winners

December 23, 2021

Dream Foundry 2021 Writing Contest

December 16, 2021

Conducting Professional Interviews for Podcasts and Print

December 9, 2021

Field Recording for Podcast Sound Design

December 2, 2021

Building a Sound Effects Library

November 25, 2021

Working with Voice Actors in Podcasting

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November 18, 2021

Crafting an Anthology

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November 17, 2021

Announcing the 2021 Dream Foundry Contest Finalists

November 11, 2021

Basics to Getting Started On BookTube

November 4, 2021

Spatial Dynamics in Podcasting

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October 28, 2021

Using Comic Scripts to Outline Your Fiction

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October 21, 2021

Rethinking Success

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October 18, 2021

Free Fall Challenge 2021

October 14, 2021

Tips and Resources on Art Submissions

October 7, 2021

How to Build Your Art Portfolio

September 30, 2021

Podcast Preparedness – Things to Have Ready to Go

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September 23, 2021

Words that Sell: Writing Marketing Copy for Your Novel

August 28, 2021

The Craft of Critiques

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August 26, 2021

Recommending Books the Old-Fashioned Way

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August 19, 2021

Mailer’s Syndrome: The Freelancer’s Dilemma

August 12, 2021

Room Treatment on a Budget

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August 5, 2021

Podcast Promotion – Marketing the Old-School Way

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July 29, 2021

Fear in Comics: Make Us Care About Your Characters III

July 22, 2021

Freeware Solutions for Building Your Podcasting Studio

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July 1, 2021

How to Deal with Rejection as a Freelancer

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June 24, 2021

3 Things to Consider For Authors Starting Podcasts

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June 17, 2021

Fear in Comics: Make Us Care About Your Characters II

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June 10, 2021

Fear in Comics: Make Us Care About Your Characters

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June 3, 2021

Fear in Comics: Gaming the Format

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May 20, 2021

Fear in Comics: An Introduction

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May 13, 2021

Preparedness, the Archive, Your Bio and Blurb

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April 29, 2021

Non-Fiction Writers: The Unsung Heroes of the Industry

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April 1, 2021

Interview with Field Collapse

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March 25, 2021

Literary Agents for Illustrators

February 25, 2021

Tips for Recording Quality Spoken Word for Podcasts

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January 21, 2021

Composing for Podcasts & Film: An interview with RedBlueBlackSilver

January 7, 2021

Using Effects Plugins to Create Character Voices: Aliens, Demons, and Monsters

January 1, 2021

7 Health and Wellbeing Tips for Creatives

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December 30, 2020

A 2020 Wrap-Up from the Dream Foundry

December 17, 2020

Using Effects Plugins to Create Character Voices: Robots, AI, and Androids

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December 16, 2020

Dream Foundry Contest 2020 Winners

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December 1, 2020

End of Year Goal Setting

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October 28, 2020

An Interview with the Dream Foundry’s Art Contest Coordinator Dante Luiz

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October 21, 2020

Dream Foundry’s Free-Fall Challenge

September 21, 2020

Make a Thing Month(s)!

September 3, 2020

Mixing Spoken Word and Music – Finding the Right Balance for your Audio Drama

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August 7, 2020

An Interview with the Dream Foundry’s Writing Contest Coordinator Vajra Chandrasekera

July 16, 2020

Interview with Artist Hasani Claxton

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June 19, 2020

SFF Craft and Industry Resources for and by Black Creators

May 28, 2020

Interview with Artist Rhea Ewing

May 15, 2020

Interview with Flights of Foundry Guest of Honor Wendy Xu

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May 13, 2020

Interview with Flights of Foundry Guest of Honor Ken Liu

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April 24, 2020

Flight of Foundry

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April 17, 2020

OMEC Returns!

April 10, 2020

Mastering Plot

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April 3, 2020

Learning at Home

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March 27, 2020

Publishing News for March 2020

March 12, 2020

Schrödinger’s Fave

March 5, 2020

Negotiating Short Story Contracts

February 27, 2020

Fan To Writer Part 5: The Hustle, And The Joy

February 20, 2020

Welcoming New Additions to Dream Foundry

February 14, 2020

Influential Comic Artist George Herriman

January 30, 2020

Fan To Writer Part 4: Publication!

January 29, 2020

Interview with Badru

January 23, 2020

Publishing News for January 2020

January 16, 2020

2019 Retrospective

January 9, 2020

Interview with Artist Cory Skerry

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January 2, 2020

Goals, Not Resolutions

December 26, 2019

Fan To Writer Part 3: Beware of Bob And Snake Oil

December 18, 2019

So You’re Going to Viable Paradise

December 12, 2019

Interview with Nathalie Grey – Artist

December 5, 2019

Contest Finals and Winners

November 28, 2019

Fan To Writer Part 2: I Wrote A Thing!!!

November 7, 2019

NaNoWriMo: How to NaNo

October 31, 2019

Fan To Writer Part 1: Turn Fun into a Book?

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October 28, 2019

Writing Contest Finalists!

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October 24, 2019

OMEC Retrospective

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October 23, 2019

The Contests Have Closed: The Hunger and the Table

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October 17, 2019

How To Make a Fictional Podcast

October 10, 2019

Interview with John Coulthart

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October 9, 2019

Contests Close Oct. 13- Submit Now!

October 3, 2019

My Tetris-Inspired Task List

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October 1, 2019

Thoughts on the Dream Foundry Writer’s Contest

September 27, 2019

Publishing News for September 2019

September 20, 2019

Selecting Workshops

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September 13, 2019

Interview with Contest Judge C.C. Finlay

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September 13, 2019

In the Beginning

September 12, 2019

Interview with Freelance Cartographer Rhys Davies

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September 5, 2019

Finding Family in Dragon Age: Inquisition

August 29, 2019

I’ve Got A Question For You: Considering Portrayals Of LGBTQ People In Fiction

I’d point out that science-fiction and fantasy are realms of possibility and…

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August 22, 2019

6 Tips For Building a World

So, you want to build a fictional world. Great! Now what? Of course, there is…

August 15, 2019

Talk the Talk: Making Your Characters Interact Like People

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August 8, 2019

OMEC: Discuss Firefly with SL Huang

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August 1, 2019

The Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Social Media Marketing for Authors

July 25, 2019

Industry News, July 2019

July 18, 2019

Interview About Magpie Games

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July 11, 2019

Not Quite Superman

When I was young, whenever I would get frustrated with something, my parents…

July 5, 2019

Transitions

June 27, 2019

Burnout, Guilt, and “Productivity”

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June 20, 2019

Industry News, June 2019

June 13, 2019

Science Fiction & Resistance

June 6, 2019

Interview with Holly Heisey

May 30, 2019

The Art of Story Mechanics

May 23, 2019

Going Interactive or: How I Learned to Relax and Let the Reader Take Control

May 16, 2019

Industry News, May 2019

May 9, 2019

Meet the Cats!

April 25, 2019

Worth a Thousand Words: Using Pictures to Inspire Fiction

April 18, 2019

Industry News, April 2019

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April 11, 2019

We’re On Kickstarter!

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April 4, 2019

Creating Realistic Non-Humans

March 28, 2019

Writing Around the Edges

March 21, 2019

Industry News, March 2019

March 14, 2019

The Cone of Silence

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March 7, 2019

Economics of Cons Roundtable

February 28, 2019

Learning How to Make Your Own Video Games

February 21, 2019

Industry News, February 2019

February 14, 2019

Writing Characters with a Compelling Romantic Spark

February 7, 2019

Making Descriptive Passages Work for You

January 31, 2019

The Important Bits: Dreams and Writing

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January 24, 2019

Official Dream Foundry Media Exploration Club

January 17, 2019

Industry News, January 2019

January 10, 2019

Interview with Illustrator Johanna Taylor

January 3, 2019

New Years, New Worlds

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December 27, 2018

Setting Creative Goals… and Keeping Them

December 20, 2018

Industry News, December 2018

December 13, 2018

Interview with Concept Artist Becca Hallstedt

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December 6, 2018

Inside the Dream Foundry – Auction Insight

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