Now that we have so many new members of the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Board of Directors, we’ll once again be featuring the RMFW Spotlight on the blog. Our goal is to introduce our board members to all our readers and encourage other RMFW members to offer their time and energy to this energetic and…
Author: RMFW Guest Blogger
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Guest Post: A View from the Critique by George Seaton
Several years ago when I was attending critique a lively discussion was prompted by one of the members asking the group if we thought of ourselves as writers or authors. I was surprised by the fervor some exhibited in response to that question. The person who’d brought it up was the group’s constant devil’s advocate,…
Guest Post: “We’d like to request an R&R” By Janet Fogg
Receiving any sort of positive response from an editor or agent is always a shiny moment, but when one such response included an acronym with multiple definitions, I found it impossible to resist substituting a few of those alternatives. Excerpt from an editor’s recent email after reviewing full manuscript: [We’ve] highlighted a number of ways…
Three Rules for Writing a Novel by Leod Fitz
According to W. Somerset Maugham, “There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” I have no idea who W. Somerset Maugham is, or what he wrote, but clearly he was a man of intellect and discernment. No, I know what you’re thinking: You’re thinking, “Leod, you’re a visionary…
WRITING THEMES: Do we choose them? Or do they choose us? by Joan Johnston
Why do all my books have “abandoned or neglected children” as an underlying theme? Until about book 25 (I’m writing book 57 now), when another writer pointed it out to me, I had no idea that this issue resonated throughout my writing. I’d grown up in a family of seven children and my parents had remained…