role-play·ing ˈrōlˌplāiNG/ noun noun: roleplay 1. PSYCHOLOGY — the acting out or performance of a particular role, either consciously (as a technique in psychotherapy or training) or unconsciously, in accordance with the perceived expectations of society with regard to a person’s behavior in a particular context. Adult role play comes in many forms. Sometimes it’s therapeutic, sometimes it’s…
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What is Inspiration?
By Jeanne C. Stein One of the first questions every writer gets is: What inspires you as a writer? My very first response was: everything. But then I realized I was confusing inspiration with the process of taking an idea and developing it into a story. Two different things. The muse that sparks an idea…
The Perils of Social Media
By Jeffe Kennedy My newest sexy romance comes out July 13th! More information and preorder links here. It’s a funny thing, being an author and doing the whole social media thing to promote books. This counts – doing my monthly posts here at RMFW – talking about thoughts and my life. Occasionally mentioning a book…
Rocky Mountain Writer Podcast–Episode #8
Rocky Mountain Writer Podcast – Episode #8 Chris Mandeville – Author of Seeds: a post-apocalyptic adventure In this episode, we talk with speculative fiction writer Chris Mandeville. In addition to recently publishing her first novel, Seeds: a post-apocalyptic adventure, Chris will teach a four-hour master class at the Colorado Gold conference in September. The class…
Nobody Writes Like You
By Mark Stevens Can you write like your favorite writer? I know I can’t. You might have Ursula Le Guin or Patricia Highsmith or Ernest Hemingway in mind when you write something, but somehow it comes out on the page as, well, you. Somewhere in all those choices of words, sentences, characters, images, plots, moods,…