Martin L. Shoemaker: His program for writing
Martin L. Shoemaker: His program for writing
By Angelique Fawns
Martin L. Shoemaker has more than 30 years of experience in programming, writing, and teaching. He’s a popular mentor in the speculative fiction world, and has stories in Analog, Galaxy’s Edge, Writers of the Future Volume 31, and Clarkesworld. I met Shoemaker when I took his Fyrecon short story masterclass, “Tools Not Rules.”
He is a prolific creator and has some great advice for writers looking to learn story structure. Last year, he released a book called Making Story Models: Tools for Visualizing Your Story, and he has a salient bit of advice that stuck out for me.
“There is no One True Path. There’s no rule of writing that someone hasn’t successfully broken, save for one: You must write.”
Shoemaker was kind enough to take time out of his busy schedule to chat with us.