My fingers must be broken. Really. How else can you explain their inability to type words on the page? No answer? That’s what I thought. Broken fingers it is. Fine…I’ll say it. I have a case of the writer’s block. Or what would be known as writer’s block, if I believed such a thing existed….
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Rocky Mountain Writer #119
Sue Duff & Dim The Lights When Sue Duff started writing The Weir Chronicles, she knew she wanted an out-of-the-ordinary super hero. She came up with Ian Black, an illusionist with a talent for keeping secrets. She also came up with The Weir, a magical race who struggle to prevent Earth from self-destructing. With the…
“Yes” Is Conditional
I’ve written about this in the past – this notion that on social media “yes” is conditional. I attended a writing conference in late February that made me think I need to write about it again. Here’s the thing: The beauty of social media is also its terror. Everybody on social media gets to tune…
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Can you get every word right in a whole damn book? Can you? Of course you can uphold standards of precision, clarity, and accuracy in a sentence. Or a page. Or a poem. Or a piece of flash fiction if there’s a $1,000 prize involved. Or a speech at a wedding. Or a cover letter…
Rocky Mountain Writer #118
John E. Stith & Pushback Every now and then, writing gets “sidetracked by life.” Just ask John E. Stith. After a productive stretch of writing mystery-tinged science fiction novels in the 1980’s and 1990’s, life got in the way. So writing took an understandable hiatus. But now, John Stith is back and looking forward to…