We’ve seen all these phenomenal books take off to best seller status – The Da Vinci Code, Gone Girl, Harry Potter, Fifty Shades of Gray – and now there’s mutterings within the writing community about what the next “big thing” will be. Well, those mutterings never cease, but it’s a new year and therefore new…
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Adventures in Genre Writing Lesson Six: Dialogue
Dialogue – Putting Words in Your Characters’ Mouths By Jeanne C. Stein Last month we looked at plotting and defining our inciting incident. In this lesson we’ll touch on one of the most important building blocks in writing: Dialogue. There are lots of authors who excel at dialogue, but none better than mystery writer, the…
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…
Crossing Colfax: A Story by Story Review
By Mark Stevens Short-story anthologies can be tricky affairs. Collecting short stories in one volume from multiple authors can end in a patchwork mess. Not the case with Crossing Colfax, a sweeping collection of writing from the ranks of Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers. The only rule was that each story had to touch on Colfax…
Our New Year’s Resolution – Improve RMFW Membership
By Saytchyn Maddux-Creech, Wendy Howard & Corinne O’Flynn Happy New Year! Did you make any New Year’s resolutions? Have you started achieving your writing goals? Or are you still recuperating from the holidays? This year the RMFW Board made a New Year’s resolution to improve membership. Last month, in between eggnog, opening presents, and toasting…