by Mark Stevens, Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers President As she accepted the Writer of the Year plaque at Colorado Gold, Linda Joffe Hull talked about living and writing for a decade in the “purgatory of almost” before finding a publisher for one of her books. As she will tell you, it was a long and…
Author: Patricia Stoltey
Introducing the Only-Slightly-Frazzled Blog Editors, Julie and Pat
Pat: Well, Julie, here we are wrapping up two full months of the new Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Blog. Thanks to our techno-goddess Wendy Howard, Mark Stevens and the RMFW Board of Directors, and a great team of regular and guest bloggers, I think it went pretty well. Julie: I’m loving the blog but really…
I Took Way Too Many Notes at the Colorado Gold Conference
By Patricia Stoltey I felt obligated to stick to the same word count I suggested for the rest of our blog’s contributors and guests, but it was hard. I took so many notes, and I learned so much, that I still feel as though I fell off my diet and stuffed myself too full. Let’s…
Passion is Inspiration
By Nicole Disney We’ve all had that moment. You’re driving on the highway, in the middle of your shift at work, in the shower, and inspiration comes. The words draw each other together like reunited lovers in bursts so poetic and fleeting you must find a pen. Whether that means leaving the steering wheel of…
Mixing it Up—You’re Doing it Wrong
By Katriena Knights In last month’s post, I talked about how TV shows maintain a long-term status quo, often keeping characters mostly static. This time, I’m going to talk about shows that have attempted to break this pattern, and how they did it wrong—and how a few of them have done it right. Hopefully this…