Patricia Stoltey

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Trai Cartwright’s Online Class for Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers

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The Top 10 Things Movies Can Teach Novelists Presented by Trai Cartwright 2 Week Course Start Date: Monday, December 2 End Date: Sunday, December 15 $25 Members – $30 Non-Member Register It’s no secret that Hollywood has cracked the story structure code, or that they’ve refined some of the most elegant and efficient character-building tools …Read More

Why Every Writer Should Take an Improv Class … by Bryan Cohen

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My first experience with improv comedy took place before I’d ever taken a class or played with a team. In high school, I was in a club called the Environmental Education Club, which let us skip school five times a year to be counselors for a group of 80 sixth graders during an overnight trip …Read More

Writing is Like Riding a Carousel

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You keep going around in circles, hoping that this time you’ll pick the horse that breaks loose and gallops off to to Wonderland. The amazing thing is…sometimes you really do pick the magic horse. Hang in there, whether you’re doing NaNoWriMo or just writing at your own speed. And if you haven’t had much luck …Read More

On Finding My Words … by Shelley Widhalm

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I used to wonder where all the words came from when I read books, each title logged alphabetically into my secretly coded notebook. How did words – from the thousands upon thousands of offerings – get selected, sorted and placed next to each other to describe an emotion, object or person to draw them in …Read More

Keeping Time in Fiction … by Susan Oleksiw

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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

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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

Are You Making Time to Write? by Jan Christensen

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As writers, we have unique time management challenges. We have to be our own motivational speakers (we’re notorious for talking to ourselves, and I’m sure a lot of it is about doing our writing) and our own coaches. We don’t have any bosses unless we work directly for a publication, and money can be iffy, …Read More

Cross-Training for Writers by Katherine Valdez

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Katherine Valdez writes essays and flash fiction. She was a Top 6 Finalist in the Grey Sparrow Journal 2012 flash fiction contest, and her story “Little Red Riding Hood Seeks Vengeance” was published in the anthology Open Doors: Fractured Fairy Tales (Wayman Publishing). One of her posts will appear in the new anthology Random Acts …Read More

Oh $#@% My Mother is Going to Read this by E. J Wesley

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E.J. Wesley is a writer /blogger I met online via one of the blogfests we both participated in, the famous A to Z April Blog Challenge. His blog, The Open Vein, is about being a writer, living the writing life, and suffering…yes, writers do suffer. Trust me on this. E.J. describes himself on Facebook as …Read More

Do You Reveal Your Deepest Secrets on Your Blog?

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I visit a few blogs where aspiring writers bare their souls, tell their deepest fears and their personal secrets, and although I like these bloggers for many reasons and will always return to see what they have to say, I tend to feel a bit uncomfortable when I get too much information. And I always …Read More