By Lori DeBoer I once met a successful mystery author at a conference in Tucson who told me she wrote all of her books in 15-minute snatches of time because, as a mom, that’s all she had. Her pronouncement horrified me. I was childless and working full-time at home as a freelance magazine writer. I…
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Dancing Away that Author Envy
by Jeffe Kennedy On one of my author loops recently, a number of people were gnashing teeth over their lack of success in the publishing world. From the publisher declining to publish the rest of the books in their series, to poor sales, to perceived favoritism for “special” authors – they felt they’d gotten a…
Four Benefits of Writing Morning Pages
By Kerry Schafer Author Julia Cameron is a beautiful soul. I confess I haven’t yet read The Artist’s Way, but I have read (repeatedly) the life book she wrote for authors: The Right to Write. In both of these books she talks about what she calls Morning Pages. The concept is simple. Every morning when…
A Few Reasons to Write Short Stories
By Lori DeBoer It’s official: Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers now welcomes writers of short fiction into its fold. Since I am noodling away on a collection of short stories, a few of which have been finalists for awards or been published, I felt relieved to be able to come out of the 10,000-words-and-fewer closet, so…
Writers Are Artists Too!
When I was a beginning writer, lo these many moons ago, I applied for and received a Fellowship and Residency from the Ucross Foundation. This was a huge thing for me. For the Residency, I spent two weeks with a private room and a vast studio with no clocks and people there to feed me….