There’s a lot of noise around a chicken coop. Chickens aren’t quiet birds, especially in groups. Sometimes they squabble among themselves. That’s where we get the phrase “pecking order,” because people – like chickens – like to know who’s better than whom. Ideally the “me” wants to be positioned above the “you.” Some might argue…
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Writing Great Villains
Let’s talk about villains for a moment, shall we? I LOVE a good villain. Someone who makes your skin crawl. Someone whose presence in the lives of the protagonist and her friends alternately infuriates and scares you. Someone who is a legitimate threat to your protagonist. But how do you create this? How do you…
Rocky Mountain Writer #124
Gwen Florio & Silent Hearts Writer of the Year finalist Gwen Florio, interviewed by Natasha Watts, talks about her writing influences, the differences and similarities between journalism and writing fiction, her most recent mystery releases and her novel Silent Hearts, set to release in July. Gwen Florio grew up in 250-year-old brick farmhouse on a…
Writing Romance: The Climax
Hello, Campers, and welcome to Act III. Last month we covered the Crisis in our romance. Headed into Act III, most likely your hero and heroine have gone their separate ways. Broken up. Finit! Sigh. But we all know where this is going. That’s why we’re still reading. The Dark Moment has done its duty,…
Writing the Avengers: Infinity War (No, I didn’t write it, but I will steal from it!)
First off, let me be clear. I did not write the Avengers: Infinity War screenplay. Or any blockbuster screenplay, book, and/or novelization, a dictionary, thesaurus, app…pretty much anything that made me a millionaire. Now that we’ve got that part out of the way, let’s talk about the movie (which I haven’t seen yet, so no…