By Jeffe Kennedy A couple of weeks ago I was privileged beyond belief to hear one of my longtime heroes speak – fantasy writer Stephen R. Donaldson. He read and discussed his lifetime of work at Bubonicon. I also got to be a guest author at the same event, making it all that much more…
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RMFW on Social Media
By Patricia Stoltey If you haven’t been out and about lately, you may not know that you can find Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers on: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RMFictionWriters This site reaches 4,153 Facebook readers and writers as of 8/11/14 Twitter https://twitter.com/RMFWriters This site has 3,408 followers as of 8/11/14. When there are new posts to the blog,…
How Exhaustion Helps Writing
By Trai Cartwright How does exhaustion help writing? It doesn’t. Of course it doesn’t. Writing through mental and physical exhaustion has always been a struggle of mine, and it seems in the past year or two, I’ve heard much the same from many of my writer friends. Whether it’s acute over-programming or serious health ailments,…
Pitch it to Me, Baby
By Karen Duvall Wow! I can’t believe the Colorado Gold Conference is only one month away. I’m refraining from packing my bag too early, but I mentally add to my packing list every day. I’m all registered for conference, my plane reservations are made, my hotel room is set, I’m super excited to see my…
The Effects of the Relativity of Time on Writing
By Kevin Paul Tracy I just finished writing a particularly irksome passage in my latest project, Bloodtrail, the sequel to Bloodflow. Irksome in that the choreography and the chronology, like a pair of cranky siblings, were fighting each other and would not agree. I was having difficulty getting characters to where I needed them to…