Yes, the lessons I’ve learned in ten years of writing. This is not to be confused with David Morrell’s excellent book, Lessons from a Lifetime of Writing. So on my own personal blog, I’ve been meditating on the last ten years. In January of 2006, I joined an RMFW Critique Group in Evergreen (with Jan…
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Real Life Research
I’ve always written historical fiction, mainly romance, which required a great deal of in-depth research, digging around in old documents, looking at ancient maps, reading tattered journals, even finding out what they ate that last night on the Titanic. Google was my very best friend. But after the latest “thanks but no thanks e-mail” I’ve…
Getting to Know You, Getting to Know All About Your Readers
As a writer, we research. It’s what we do. We research settings. Disorders. Things that go bump in the night. Urban and suburban legends and the occasional garden gnome murder spree. We know what the height of fashion was in 1723 and who wore it best. We know our guns. Our poisons. And the quickest…
Tweetleedee, Tweetleedum: Give Us Your Twitter Link
Here’s the chance for all you Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers to share the link to your Twitter ID (and we’ll hope everyone who visits this blog post follows the link to your page and follows you on Twitter). First share your name and @ ID — as in: Patricia Stoltey @PStoltey Then sign in to…
Rocky Mountain Writer #37
J.L. Abramo & Brooklyn Justice J. L. Abramo was born in the seaside paradise of Brooklyn, New York on Raymond Chandler’s fifty-ninth birthday. His seventh novel was just published and it’s set in the town where he was born. Brooklyn Justice is a series of interconnected stories featuring private eye Nick Ventura. Abramo is…