Kate Jonuska & Colorado Resistance Reads “Reading is a political act.” That’s the tag line for Colorado Resistance Reads, the brainchild of RMFW’s own Kate Jonuska. Colorado #ResistanceReads curates books by Colorado authors that engage with themes relevant to today’s tumultuous political climate, including climate change, the free press, LGBTQ+ rights, the me-too movement, the…
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I Have a Strong Opinion – Now What?
If, as a writer, you venture to spout your political beliefs on the internet, you’re going to get yourself in trouble. You’ll alienate readers. You’ll invite trolls. You might get into arguments with other writers. Most agents and marketing and PR people advise their writer clients to button up and stay out of the fray.
POLITICAL INTRIGUE IN FICTION
By Kevin Paul Tracy This month’s post builds on the ideas in February’s post with thoughts on infusing fictional politics into your fiction. In that post I refer to the root of all politics, economics, and how ultimately it is commodities in high demand – oil, gold, the spice Melange – and the need to…
MORE POLITICS IN FICTION
By Kevin Paul Tracy After writing last month’s column on infusing your fiction with real-world politics, I thought I’d address this month’s column to how to infuse fictional politics into your fictional world. In fiction it is often necessary to build a world as a stage on which the events of your novel or series…
POLITICS IN FICTION
By Kevin Paul Tracy I’ve recently been inundated with fiction manuscripts to critique that contain a fair amount of political commentary. I’m not referring to the kind of politics you find in Game of Thrones or The Wheel of Time or TV’s Defiance – those are internal, fictional intrigues that apply only to the fiction…