Mercury is in retrograde October 21st to November 10th. I have no idea what this means, but it sounds ominous. I checked The Farmers Almanac. It suggests one shouldn’t sign contracts during this time and that plans could go haywire. That’s scary. If I’m presented with a contract, I’ll be afraid to sign. Not! ## …Read More
Archives for October 2013
Keeping Time in Fiction … by Susan Oleksiw
Every writer I know has a few tricks to help with editing a mss, and the one I use regularly is the timeline. I write without an outline, and often without any clear sense of where the story is going. Though I often know the ending, I have no idea what’s going to happen along …Read More
Let Your Characters Do the Talking — An RMFW Online Class
Let Your Characters Do the Talking Presented by Sharon Mignerey2 Week CourseStart Date: Monday, October 21End Date: Sunday, November 3 $25 Members – $30 Non-Member To register, go to the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers website here. The verbal exchanges our hero/heroine has with other characters is usually where a story comes alive. Great dialog infuses …Read More
Oh gosh, the great blog posts you’re missing…
if you’re not a follower of the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Blog. For instance, did you check out Lori DeBoer’s excellent post last Thursday about critique groups? Or Trai Cartwright’s post on October 3rd where she tried to define the New Adult genre (and believe me, that’s not easy). Today the blog features guest author …Read More
Tidbits About Books and Reading and the Writing Life
I just finished reading William Kent Krueger‘s novel, Ordinary Grace, and cannot say enough good things about it. I like Krueger’s Cork O’Conner mystery series a lot, so when I spotted this standalone novel at my library, I had to give it a try. You can go here to read the synopsis and reviews. If …Read More
Insecure? Not Me … by Maryann Miller
A long time ago I wrote a funny little piece about an insecure writer who had been writing in secret because she was afraid to let anyone know what she was doing. If her husband asked why she was spending hours in the closet, her response was, “Oh, just sorting clothes. Sorting takes a long …Read More
Life is Not a Bowl of Cherries
And a bunch of coconuts is not lovely. Who writes these song lyrics anyway? This is one of the reasons I don’t listen to music while I’m writing. I can’t help listening to lyrics, and sometimes the lyrics confound me. I try to analyze them, figure out what the lyricist was trying to say. Like …Read More
Online class “Building a Better Book” starts Monday
One of our favorite Colorado writing instructors, Trai Cartwright, is teaching an online class for Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers starting Monday. A popular instructor for Northern Colorado Writers classes, Trai now brings her expertise to a wider audience with the RMFW Blog and online classes. Here’s the scoop: Building a Better BookPresented by Trai Cartwright2 …Read More
The winner is…
The winner of an ebook copy of Kim McMahill’s novel Shrouded in Secrets is John Paul McKinney Congratulations, John!
Research in Fiction by Kim McMahill
Many genres within the fiction umbrella require an amazing amount of research. When I gravitated away from writing travel and human interest articles and began focusing on adventure fiction, I was surprised to find myself doing as much or more research than I did for my articles. Fiction is still a product of the author’s …Read More