by Karen Duvall When I write, I like complete silence. No music playing in the background, no television noises to distract me (unless it’s football, of course. The sound of cheering keeps me motivated). My pets know my demands, and the cats are lovely about keeping quiet. The dog, on the other hand… She claims…
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New Adult: Defining it in Art and in Life
By Trai Cartwright Part Three of a Six-Part Monthly Series If you haven’t already heard, the writing world has a Hot New Thing. It’s called New Adult, and everyone’s after it – but no one can agree on what it is. I’ve been known to take a poll or two, collecting data until there are…
Trying to Retire
By Carol Caverly I’ve been in the writing business for a long time, since the late fifties, I think. It’s been a long wondrous, fascinating journey. But as the years have passed, and the business changing completely (some for the better, some for the worse) the fire in the belly has disappeared, or perhaps worn…
Making the Long and Winding Road to Publication a Little Shorter with RMFW
by Mark Stevens, Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers President As she accepted the Writer of the Year plaque at Colorado Gold, Linda Joffe Hull talked about living and writing for a decade in the “purgatory of almost” before finding a publisher for one of her books. As she will tell you, it was a long and…
Introducing the Only-Slightly-Frazzled Blog Editors, Julie and Pat
Pat: Well, Julie, here we are wrapping up two full months of the new Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Blog. Thanks to our techno-goddess Wendy Howard, Mark Stevens and the RMFW Board of Directors, and a great team of regular and guest bloggers, I think it went pretty well. Julie: I’m loving the blog but really…