Note: "Over the years, the SFWA Bulletin has intermittently published a series of columns about writing, sometimes titled 'How to' or 'What Works for Me'. The first such columns, written by Damon Knight and James Blish, appeared when Terry Carr was Bulletin editor; the most recent was by Charles L. Harness and was published in the Spring 1984 Bulletin. Most of our members have never seen these columns, so we reprise several of them here. We hope to do many more, with a view to a book-length collection, and invite submissions."