Hello Campers, Last month I promised to take a side trip here and discuss – ahem – sex. Is sex necessary in a romance novel? That’s a huge question. Before I move into the real discussion, I’ll point out that my romances do not have sex in them. That is a personal decision I made,…
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February isn’t just for lovers. IT’S FOR WRITERS!!!!!
February is made for writing. Seriously. The weather sometimes sucks (unless you live in Colorado, like most RMFW writers), leaving us with no excuse but to get some words on the page. We’re also still in our honeymoon period with the hastily made New Year word count resolutions (by June it’s all over) we’ve made….
Rocky Mountain Writer #114
Pamela Nowak & Colorado Gold Workshop Proposals In the words of Pamela Nowak, there are “tough decisions” ahead. That’s because she and her committee will receive three times as many proposals for workshops at Colorado Gold than she has room to book. Yes, planning for the 2018 edition of September’s Colorado Gold conference is well…
Mambo No. 5
It’s not so much a rule as a repeated observation. While the plural of anecdote isn’t data, there comes a point where something happens often enough that one has to believe there’s something other than divine intervention at work. The observation is that many authors don’t begin to get traction until they’ve published five novels….
How to Write Memorable Villains
Villains. You can’t have a good story without them. We loathe them. We hate them. Sometimes, we admire them. While we know the protagonist, the hero, must prevail, deep down inside, we sometimes still root for the bad guy. So how do we create a memorable villain? The first thing we have to remember, to…