April 1998

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Features
Using Real People in your stories
By Eileen Herbert Jordan
Interviewing celebrities by mail
By Ellen Mansoor Collier
Dynamic details make a difference
By Beverly J. Letchworth
Writing with a green thumb
By Mary E. Maurer
Beating the odds of rejection
By Dennis E. Hensley
Fom the archives of The Writer
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From the editor
Writing for analog: science fiction and fact
By Stanley Schmidt
Roving editor
They say
Off the cuff
Men (Editors) are from Mars; Women (Editors) are from Venus
By Gary Thomson
Letters to the editor
The rostrum
Skills free lancers need - and don't need
By Alan S. Horowitz
Prize offers
The writer's library
Where to sell manuscripts
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