September 1998

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Features
Writing matters
By Julia Alvarez
When a playwright's well runs dry
By Kent R. Brown
Poet to Poet
By James Applewhite
Putting emotion into your fiction
By Bharti Kirchner
Ideas for science fiction
By Poul Anderson
How to write and sell humorous greeting cards
By Donna Gephart
Departments
From the editor
Roving editor
Letters to the editor
Off the cuff
Tools of the writer's trade
By Christopher Scanlan
They say
Prize offers
Where to sell manuscripts
Drama; Fillers and Short Humor; Greeting Card Markets
The rostrum
Market newsletter
The writer's library
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