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…
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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…
The Risks of Character Neglect
When I started writing my first book, I didn’t plot. I chose a time period I loved and imagined a dynamic, larger-than-life hero and a heroine who was a lot like me. Since it was a romance, I knew it ended up with them together and happy. But that was all I knew. About three…
My Love Affair with the Written Word
Writers love to read. Writers love other writers. Writers love the written word. There is nothing that makes my heart and my mind tingle more than a clever, profound, or artfully worded turn of phrase in something I’m reading. “A fanatic can no more shut his mouth than he can open his mind.” – Will…
Are you doing the “write things” to grow yourself as a writer?
If you want to improve your writing, RMFW is the place to do it, with free workshops in the Denver area and Western Slope, bestselling author Jeffrey Deaver’s half-day workshop in April, an annual education event in May (which this year features two workshops with Kristen Lamb), the Colorado Gold conference in September (a long weekend jam-packed…