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TV TROPES can also be slightly crippling, if you fall into the trap of thinking "AW, my thing's already been done to death ..."

Shush. It's ALL been "done" nothing new under the sun etc ...

Everything can benefit from your new energy or your new re-telling!

You're right, the ILLUSTRATORS were always fewer here, if no less enthusiastic or talented! We always just figured that it was NATURAL that Writer folks would be verbal and use the forums more. (We illustrators communicated via cave art and overpass graffiti ... OH! And we sent messages to each othe...

Well ... it may indeed BE so quiet here on the IOTF side of things that you could hear the crickets chirp ... But we're sci-fi and fantasy ILLUSTRATORS, man! Illustrate a scary ten foot tall monstrous mutant cricket and let it hunt some writers down across the forum in absolute terrifying silence! w...

Just an update ... wotf006 It's been a very long time! Here's the IOTF website's WINNING ARTISTS' ART GALLERIES .. well, at least for years 2011, 2012, and 2013. http://www.writersofthefuture.com/illustrator-winners/ Click on the thumbnail on left, art gets big, click on that and it gets still bigge...

Dreaming worlds into being ...

Where do your weird ideas come from? they ask Writers and Illustrators.

Childhood, no doubt.

Yay to you Illustrators Contest and artists! The more the merrier! And it's the illustrations that make our WOTF / IOTF anthology extra (extra!) special as both a contest AND a book upon the shelves (or digital devices) imo! And double threats are the best threats! :) (Are they not THREE, the double...

Who here enters the Illustrators contest? Roll call! :) Sound off! Anyone? Any remaining "double-threats" to win both contestses? (I'm afraid I'm pretty much the infrequent writer-entryest now, assuming I ever even had a shot at the two-fer) If not ... c'mon, contest Writers, help the brut...

The re-imagined BATTLESTAR GALACTICA is utterly amazing in concept, story arc, characters, drama and theme ... it's just wonderful sci-fi, imo. Binge upon it and delight. But when discussing Best SF Tv ... " future " ... who can forget the March 16th, 2042 episode of COSMOS v.3 ... during ...

You have to remember that the contest is looking at your three entries in order to imagine how "good" the artist's FUTURE, UNSEEN story illustration may be (the one they'll use to illustrate a winning story) ... They know EXACTLY what the winning STORY will be (They choose the best story e...

Congratulations, Preston! Definitely an enjoyable read -- that's a pretty twisty mystery story!

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I'd think it would be specific to each writer's creative flow. To each their own. My first draft, I'm ink pen in college lined notebook, and even then that's only pulling together dozens of loose pages where i've scribbled down ideas, or snatches/swathes of scenes and dialogue. Then the notebooks ge...

I saw an episode of ONCE UPON A TIME IN WONDERLAND and ... ugh. The first episode was almost amateurish, imo. I wish I'd stuck with the original series longer, but ... Oh well, there's always AMERICAN HORROR STORY: COVEN . Creepy unclean scares there! http://www.thewrap.com//images/2013/09/american-...

Jésus porté sur le pinacle du Temple (Jesus Carried up to a Pinnacle of the Temple), c. 1886-1894 James Tissot https://scontent-b-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/47493_474879445865736_644486112_n.jpg and equally eerie ... http://www.canvasreplicas.com/images/Jesus%20Ministered%20to%20by%20Angels%20Jam...

Here's a cool video Jordan Ellinger shared over on Facebook. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=G0KTUysrwgQ And the making of video (starring the mass murderer cult girl actress from ... um ... um ... y'know? The guy's leading an E A Poe cult to murder folks, the FBI guy is c...

From Joni's e-mail: 3rd Quarter Writers of the Future Winners Announced From a field of thousands, whittled down to 8 finalists, the winners of the 3rd Quarter of the 30th year of the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest have been selected and announced: 1st Place: Leena Likitalo of Helsinki...

Sorry not to give my two cents sooner (since with politics in DC, my two cents may soon fall in value to one cent etc) ... Definitely the bright yellow struck me wrong as others suggested ... I'd say I liked the Dagon fish one most, the seagull ones just not so much. Are witches' pentagrams upside d...

Ms Meliva Koch reminds us that THIS Sept. 30 will be the last contest quarter in the first 25 years of the ILLUSTRATORS' contest! So ... I wonder if this deadline is our last opportunity to find a place in the up-coming 25 Years of IOTF Illustration book ??? It's extra especial motivation to get tho...

Well ... Amazon is showing our "customer images" unexpectedly again (they may all finally be stripped from our Amazon books' previews come Aug. 31) ... So in the spirit of "One last opportunity to TOUT my own stories' ILLUSTRATION CONTENT " ... wotf005 ... May I invite WOTF / IOT...

It's an issue I deal with often too! Here's a general thumbnail overview: http://www.collegeart.org/ip/qa7 Here are " 5 Famous Infringement Cases " http://99designs.com/designer-blog/2013/04/19/5-famous-copyright-infringement-cases/ The Associated Press vs. Fairey case startled the heck ou...

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Please go here ^ and express your desire that the "customer images" tool can be RESTORED to help Writers and Illustrators SELL our books, products, etc!

Thank you!

Well, it seems the geniuses (sarcasm) / idiots (idiots) at Amazon have decided to remove the "customer images" tool ... one of the greatest marketing tools ever created. wotf23 So now very few readers / Amazon buyers will understand the WOTF is one of those rare great genre things: ILLUSTR...

What bobsandiego spake. Luv the one on the left. And ... $5 ?! I gotta investigate that service, two cool covers.

Hi, Rebecca! Personally I like this one ... the bird silhouette against the sky is very powerful. My concern is that I don't think/feel that the mountains in the distance work as silhouettes: they really just appear FLAT and nonrealistic (it's almost like combining the photo-real seascape with a car...

Congratulations to the latest ILLUSTRATORS OF THE FUTURE Q1 winners! wotf007 Hollywood, CA (PRWEB) June 10, 2013 The 1st Quarter winners of the 30th year of the L. Ron Hubbard Illustrators of the Future Contest were announced today. "The contest is international however all winners currently l...

They'll call it "The Bookworm" ... the virus that ate up all the science fiction that existed only on the internet, ate it out from the core. wotf018 Only the sci-fi printed on yellowing paper will remain. We'll be back to Ant Men on the Moon and Sphia Loren-looking babes in armor being ab...

It looks NON-fiction to me, but then I saw it as a totem pole (I was into Pacific NW Native American art etc). As a cover (just imo) it's too-photo-real (hence the non-fiction vibe) to be understood as a "character" etc. It's a totem pole, it's a real object, photographed: if that fits the...

I wax, I wax philosophical until I melt; I pine, I pine like a squirrel has me by my cones. wotf021 So ... some of our thoughts, and some of our writings are now dust in the wind. I guess my sense of loss is over that philosophically. Realistically it happens to us all, I guess. For what it's worth,...

I'd doubleplus agree with seeing the VALUE of "old" threads! 2011 and pre-2011 isn't old ... it's a reference of a goldmine where anyone NEW coming to the contest can probably find alot of questions explored and answered! Invaluable stuff! http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NpRums9accQ/TJsXVChPn9I/...