I wrote my first short story in a day. Not that I planned it that way. I’d always wanted to try my hand at short fiction so I signed up for a week-long class at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, only to discover this wasn’t a series of lectures where I’d learn the fundamentals. No,…
Image by WikiImages from Pixabay Set GOALS! You can’t score at home plate unless you touch each base. Set small goals to achieve the large, final goal. Stories that lead to deep discussion, (i.e. controversial or with plenty of deep emotions) = unforgettable = attention to your book and you = marketing and sales. Fine…
Back in January I had a schedule of conferences I wanted to attend. Colorado Gold. Northern Colorado Writers Conference. Pikes Peak Writers Conference. RMFW Writers Retreat. MileHiCon. And a few more. All of them canceled because of the pandemic. What’s a writer to do? What we can do is go to virtual conferences. RMFW, Northern…
About the Book The complete book title is: Dear Writer, You Need to Quit: What to Keep, What to Quit, What to Question. All sixteen chapters begin with the word “Quit.” The author, Becca Syme, is the writing coach who developed the successful “Write Better-Faster” courses. This book (185 pages) was not written to augment…
Did you get all July Fourthy this year? For me, not so much. It’s hard to feel that star-spangled pride when there’s so much strife, upset, misery, and death. The shine, this year, is off. Don’t worry. I’m not going to turn the RMFW blog into a political platform. But those brutal, long minutes in…