All truth passes through three stages: First it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed and third it is accepted as being self-evident (unknown) Anyone ever had a tough critique? Truth is everybody is gonna hurt you – you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for (Bob Marley) Ever agonized over which of your…
Author: Terri Benson
Terri is traditionally and self-published in novel length, plus dozens of articles and short stories published—many award winning. She was Education Chair for RMFW for several years as well as being the Western Slope Liaison through 2019, an irregular blogger (in more ways than one), member of Sisters in Crime, presents workshops at writer's conferences, and teaches night classes at Western Colorado Community College. Terri spends her non-writing time working at a Business Incubator helping people start and grow small business, camping, jeeping, and dirt biking with her junior-high-school sweetheart/husband of 40+ years and a succession of Brittany spaniels.
The Eureka! Moment
Have you ever had one of those when you’re writing? When you suddenly notice something that was right there, but you couldn’t see it until that exact moment in time? I recently had one, and while it gave me a bit of a headache, it was definitely a good thing. This weekend was the Jeffery Deaver…
First Day of Spring (well, it was)
I’m writing this on the first day of spring, although you won’t see it until the season is a week old. My weekend was the perfect start to a seasonal change. Saturday hiking in the sun, a cool breeze, lots of green showing in grasses and trees, and even a few blooms here and there….
Are you doing the “write things” to grow yourself as a writer?
If you want to improve your writing, RMFW is the place to do it, with free workshops in the Denver area and Western Slope, bestselling author Jeffrey Deaver’s half-day workshop in April, an annual education event in May (which this year features two workshops with Kristen Lamb), the Colorado Gold conference in September (a long weekend jam-packed…
Busy, Busy, Busy! (quote from Professor Hinkle’s bunny)
Okay, the holidays are over. New Year’s resolutions are done (and I mean done, as in missed, forgotten, totally not going to happen already). Time to get my act in gear. Yep. Time to do that. Starting tomorrow. Or maybe this weekend will be better because, you know, I’ll have more time to get it…