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Elaine of OnSpec is announcing a workshop (in Edmonton, alas) on how to avoid writing bad speculative fiction.  I love the abecedarius:

A- Anachronisms
B - Believability
C - Characters (cardboard/place-holders/unsympathetic)
- Clichés, large and small
D - Dialect (does it detract from flow?)
E - Expository Lumps and Plot Dumps
F - Formatting (how not to look like an amateur)

and so on…