By Carol Berg In my published writing career, I’ve started six projects. Three of them, I intended to be standalone novels. Only one of those three stayed that way. One project I sold as a three book series and it turned out to be four. Clearly I’m not great at estimating. My problem is that…
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Oh, That Nasty Practice
As I pondered topics for today’s blog, my mind skipped past several ideas and latched on to a practice that seems to come very naturally to me: procrastination. Ah, I see some nods of agreement out there. We all know this skill is one many writers have honed well. Deep down, we know there are…
Ooooh, shiny! The Next Project Syndrome
By Robin D. Owens There you are, drudging through your current project, convinced it is cat crap and an idea wiggles in. A beautiful, sparkling, WONDERFUL idea. Something so alluring, that will be so much more fun to write than the current story (especially if the current story has been bought and you’ve taken money…
Adventures in genre writing…Lesson One
By Jeanne Stein Welcome, everyone. Let’s have some fun. I suppose most of you looked at the topic question and shrugged. Genre is everything that’s not literary, right? It’s what Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers is all about, right? But the subcategories of genre books have both expanded and tightened in the last few years. An…
Wrapping Up a Trilogy
By Jeffe Kennedy A couple of weeks ago I was privileged beyond belief to hear one of my longtime heroes speak – fantasy writer Stephen R. Donaldson. He read and discussed his lifetime of work at Bubonicon. I also got to be a guest author at the same event, making it all that much more…