Begin transmission . . . Running weekly from May 2015 to April 2016, The Canister X Transmission was sent via email to readers worldwide. Every week, readers received updates from the desk of A.P. Fuchs that served as a behind-the-scenes gateway into his views on the publishing industry and past work. The newsletter covered four main topics: Writing/Creating/Publishing, in which... [click here for more]
The Elite Design Elements: Word Count Calculatorhelps you estimate the length of any piece of fiction, based on the number of characters, scenes, locations, and Orson Scott Card's MICE threads in your story. The tool is especially useful for planning and writing short fiction or flash fiction.
This download contains one .xlsx spreadsheet (Microsoft Excel) that calculates... [click here for more]
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Running from May 2018 to June 2020, The Canister X Transmission was sent via email to readers worldwide.
Readers received updates straight from A.P. Fuchs that were meant to entertain, educate, and inform.
The Long Year Five was a long time in the making with A.P. Fuchs battling an illness which prevented him from sending out newsletters every week. During this tumultous... [click here for more]
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Running weekly from May 2017 to April 2018, The Canister X Transmission was sent via email to readers worldwide.
Instead of writing letters with a fixed set of topics, A.P. Fuchs simply wrote letters to his readers every week, covering topics like the Frozen Storm Kickstarter, self-publishing, work plans, opinions on publishing, depression, freezing winters, and more.
The... [click here for more]