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Welcome to Scissors for Ink: a hub for storytellers to learn and grow. Stories are our passion just like they are yours! We dive deep into the heart, theory, and craft that makes them excellent. Whether you’re wrestling with plot problems, looking for inspiration, or preparing to share your manuscript with the world, we’ve got the resources you need to write with confidence and finish the stories you’ve always dreamed of!

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Fantasy

Adventures into a magical world. This includes high and low fantasy, DnD-style adventures, urban fantasy, and some supernatural stories. We love all the odd corners of this genre, including obscure nooks like flintlock fantasy and fantasy of manners!

Fantasy

Adventures into a magical world. This includes high and low fantasy, DnD-style adventures, urban fantasy, and some supernatural stories. We love all the odd corners of this genre, including obscure nooks like flintlock fantasy and fantasy of manners!

Science Fiction

Stories that take place in a technologically superior world to our own. This could be earth in the near future or adventures on far-flung planets! Soft and hard sci-fi, space opera, alien fiction, robot fiction, and more niche things like generation ship and sword and planet sci-fi are some of our favorites.

Science Fiction

Stories that take place in a technologically superior world to our own. This could be earth in the near future or adventures on far-flung planets! Soft and hard sci-fi, space opera, alien fiction, robot fiction, and more niche things like generation ship and sword and planet sci-fi are some of our favorites.

Contemporary
Speculative

This mouthful is a catch-all for stories that happen in a place similar to the real world, but with a larger than life flavor! This includes superhero fiction, crime and detective fiction, historical fiction, and westerns that have a fantastical twist!

Contemporary Speculative

This mouthful is a catch-all for stories that happen in a place similar to the real world, but with a larger than life flavor! This includes superhero fiction, crime and detective fiction, historical fiction, and westerns that have a fantastical twist!

Punk Genres

These stories explore what the world would become if technology took a different path—or if reality itself worked differently. This genre includes steampunk, diesel punk, cyber punk, and solar punk! We consider “dying world,” “weird world,” and some monster fiction part of this category as well!

Punk Genres

These stories explore what the world would become if technology took a different path—or if reality itself worked differently. This genre includes steampunk, diesel punk, cyber punk, and solar punk! We consider “dying world,” “weird world,” and some monster fiction part of this category as well!

Animal Fiction

These stories focus on non-human protagonists. If humans appear, they take a back-seat in the narrative. The characters may be personified animals, anthropomorphic animals, or completely original creatures! Think Watership Down, Wind in the Willows, Worrier Cats, and Duck Tales!

Animal Fiction

These stories focus on non-human protagonists. If humans appear, they take a back-seat in the narrative. The characters may be personified animals, anthropomorphic animals, or completely original creatures! Think Watership Down, Wind in the Willows, Worrier Cats, and Duck Tales!

Don’t see your genre? No worries! Scissors for Ink has educational resources that will help most fiction authors, regardless of genre. For our paid services, ask anyways! We will consider fiction outside our norms—and even some nonfiction—if we can serve it well.