Bonus Essay: On Heinlein’s Habits & The Rise of the New Pulp Era
Welcome to GenrePunk Ninja supplemental, where I occasionally post foundational essays written before I launched the GenrePunk Ninja newsletter. This essay originally appeared in Eclectic Projects issue 1. Estimated Reading Time: 22 Minutes | Don’t like reading online? Get an ebook copy here. On Heinlein’s Habits & The Rise of the New Pulp Era SECRET ORIGINS I first learned Heinlein’s Rules for Writing while at Clarion South in the Australian summer of 2007, holed up in the Griffith University campus with seventeen other speculative fiction hopefuls for six weeks spent critiquing and learning our craft under the watchful eye of established SF professionals. At the time I’d written semi-professionally for over a decade, publishing poetry and RPG materials while making slow to negligent progress on my creative writing PhD. Years spent immersed in university creative writing programs taught me to string words together in a pretty row, but time spent in a post-graduate writing degree focuses on building a career