If this will be your first time at the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Colorado Gold writing conference, or you want to start your conference with an overview of the basics of novel writing, consider attending the Craft 101 track on Friday afternoon. Taught by some of RMFW’s best instructors, the track is designed to cover…
Have you been taking writing classes, going to conferences and getting feedback from critique partners, but are struggling to elevate your writing to finalist or even winner of contests? Or are you ready to move on with your writing career as an independently published writer? If you answered yes to either of these questions, you’ll…
Write what you know. You can’t read a book written for the craft of writing without seeing these four words jump out at you as an answer on how to get started. In my case, I see those words and am torn. On the one hand I think, “Yes! I know things! I can do…
When I think back to my early days around Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, about twenty years ago, I remember a sound: the thumpity-bump of dragging a cooler from my car across parking lots at various Metro Denver libraries as I brought refreshments and snacks for the monthly workshops. Arvada. Lakewood. Aurora. Denver. Wherever. I had…
After high school, I enlisted in the U.S. Army for a three-year tour of duty. Never having traveled farther than a car trip from Colorado to Iowa, I took the train to basic training in Missouri. Before I completed basic, President Kennedy was assassinated, and our inexperienced platoon of raw recruits and reluctant draftees was…