Join me over at the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Blog today for a special Halloween post written by Elvira Stoltey and Ghoulie Luek: Writers’ Halloween Fear List: BOO The Writers’ Top Ten Halloween List of Frights And while you’re there, if you haven’t visited the RMFW Blog yet, please scroll down through the posts and …Read More
The Value of Joining a Writing Community
Northern Colorado Writers Last Sunday I attended a Northern Colorado Writers Open House hosted by NCW Director Kerrie Flanagan. This was a great opportunity to reconnect with some of the writers I hadn’t seen lately and also meet a few of the newer members and learn what kind of writing they’re interested in. I talked …Read More
Five Things I’ve Learned from Working That Make My Writing Life Easier
I worked in the real world for over 35 years before I retired, traveled, and then finally decided to get serious about the writing I’d only dabbled in to that point. Working in the real world is hard, especially when you work for big companies with lots of people. If you work as a supervisor …Read More
On Finding My Words … by Shelley Widhalm
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
The Five Reasons Why I Haven’t Posted Since Sunday
5. I was catching up on my filing 4. I had to get a lot of groceries this week 3. I’m trying to fix a Halloween costume for Katie Cat and she’s not cooperating 2. I’m working on my plan for NaNoWriMo 1. I forgot
Mercury in Retrograde and Other Annoying Things
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
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
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