By Jeanne C. Stein Story Structure – Plotting, Inciting Incident This class we look at story structure, beginning with constructing a plot. There are as many ways to plot a story as there are writers to plot them. When I started writing the Anna Strong series, I used the “seat of the pants” method—I knew…
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Facing Fear of Failure
By Jeffe Kennedy This is the cover for my next TWELVE KINGDOMS book, THE TALON OF THE HAWK. It comes out May, 2015, but the Addicted 2 Heroines blog is running a Hottest Heroines cover contest for all covers revealed in 2014. I was thrilled they chose the TALON cover for round one, and even…
Lessons Learned: Words Hurt Your Career
By J.A. (Julie) Kazimer In case you hadn’t heard, and really how could you not have since I’ve begged everyone to notice, that I have a new novel coming out…well…yesterday. The Fairyland Murders hit the streets and all of the publishing world is abuzz. Reviews are coming in. Newspapers are asking for interviews. Readers are…
Writing a reader-friendly historical romance
by Janet Lane For thou with me while iuel shall I not dread… My first inspiration to write fiction involved a thought that flashed through my mind when entering rather boring sales data into date fields. I inadvertently entered something like 1798 instead of 1998, and a “What if?” idea flashed above my head, just…
A Book List for Holiday Shopping — Part Two
The members of Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers are both traditionally and indie-published in almost any genre you can imagine. Yesterday I posted a few books available for purchase along with a buy link so you can learn more about the novels (and click that “Buy” button, of course). That was just a drop in the…