The Three Pillars

Author and writing instructor Bradley P. Beaulieu shares hard-earned lessons from a career spent writing speculative fiction in The Three Pillars: A Practical Guide to Writing Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror. Beaulieu offers a practical but flexible framework that advises every stage of the writing process, from generating big ideas to crafting larger-than-life characters to constructing gripping plots and more.

Writing groundbreaking fantasy, science fiction, and horror depends on creativity, technique, and no small amount of work. Technique can be learned, and the work is made so much easier with a solid understanding of speculative fiction’s three main pillars of world, character, and plot, and how each is integrally linked to the others.

Broken into distinct phases of brainstorming, writing, and editing, The Three Pillars is part instruction manual, part creative idea generator, and part motivational guide. The techniques shared will help you expand on your raw ideas and turn them into vibrant tales with characters and worlds that jump off the page and that readers won’t soon forget.