Last month I attended Genre Fest 2015, an event organized by the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, Rocky Mountain Chapter of Mystery Writers of America, and The Colorado Authors’ League. The speaker for the morning was David Morrell, creator of Rambo–-as well as numerous novels (both fiction and nonfiction) and short fiction-–and to say I was…
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What’s Going On at Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers?
The Colorado Gold Conference 2015 Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Colorado Gold Conference September 11-13, 2015 The Westin, Westminster, Colorado Keynote speakers: Jeffery Deaver and Desiree Holt Register now at the RMFW website conference page. Colorado Gold Writing Contest for Unpublished Novelists The deadline for entering is June 1st, 2015 New This Year Enter the…
THOSE WHO CAN’T TEACH, DO.
By Kevin Paul Tracy This is not going to be a popular opinion with a lot of people out there, including many aspiring writers. In answer to the question, “Can you teach someone to write?” my answer is yes…and no. I firmly believe you can teach someone to write, but you cannot teach anyone to…
The Greatest Chicken Thief in All of Europe … by Guest Mike Befeler
I wasn’t planning to write a non-fiction book. But all that changed in May of 2013 when I met Ed, a 94-year-old World War II veteran. Here’s the back story. At the time I was on the Boulder County Aging Advisory Council and gave a ride to another council member. She told me about this…
RMFW Joins The Wide World of Podcasting
By Mark Stevens We interrupt this blog’s regular programming, writing advice, inspirations and musings to bring you this commercial announcement: Drum roll…. RMFW has a new podcast. As this post goes up, ‘The Rocky Mountain Writer’ should be finding its way to your favorite podcast provider, including iTunes. It’s also posted from the home page…