I read the most touching article last week. Written by Amy Krouse Rosenthal, a well known children’s author and filmmaker. It was titled, “You May Want to Marry My Husband.” It was written along the lines of a match.com profile, and it described the charms, kindnesses, and deep expressions of love her husband had shown her…
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Rocky Mountain Writer #77
Diane Byington & Run Away Home Diane Byington is the guest with a story about the long and winding road to finding a publisher for her first novel, Run Away Home. After seven years of work and writing and re-writing, Run Away Home is due out later this year or early next from Red Adept…
Moving from Fear to Courage in Diversity Writing … by Rebecca Hopkins
The very first novel I ever started writing took place in a small town in Texas. The outsider newspaper reporter main character was on her way to solving some town mystery. It was quite similar to my own life at the time. I worked as a small town Texas newspaper reporter from up north. And…
Spring Cleaning: Give Your Writing Space a Makeover
I have several writing spaces, including the couch, the library, and (weather permitting) the patio. But when I really need to focus, I have a designated, distraction-free place I can retreat to. I call it my “cave,” but it’s more like a hobbit hole: cozy, comfortable, and colorful. Here’s how I did it—complete with photos!—and…
Is your writing moving along like you hoped for in 2017?
I don’t know about you, but one of my New Year’s Resolutions was to get my writing life better organized which included writing more often, mucking out my office-cum-storage room, getting a business plan done, and deciding if I was going to go ahead and self-publish the first three completed historical romances in the series…