By Kevin Paul Tracy In golf, “the back nine” refers to the second half of an 18-hole golf game. It’s often used as a metaphor for finishing up, or approaching the culmination of a goal. Other sports analogies would be: “the home stretch;” “first and goal;” or “sliding in to home.” In writing I use…
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On The Dangers of Writing Fictional Men
By Colleen Oakes I remember discussing Twilight (a book I’m not embarrassed to admit I loved) at length with a couple of girlfriends, right around the height of the hysteria that captured a nation of teenage girls and forced a lot of grumbling married men to watch Robert Pattinson stare for hours at an exasperated…
A Few Bad Habits
By Mark Stevens You brush your teeth. You comb your hair. You make a pot of coffee. You’re on auto pilot, right? Not much brainpower required. Your head is busy elsewhere, thinking ahead. Or something. You sit down to write. Man oh man, that first sentence of your new bestseller is going to be carved…
The RMFW Spotlight is on Saytchyn Maddux-Creech, Membership Chair
The first Monday of the month the RMFW Blog features one of the members of the board of directors or a volunteer. This month Saytchyn Maddux-Creech has agreed to answer our questions. We hope this helps members and potential members get acquainted with the incredible folks who keep Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers going and growing….
I Hate Writing to Prompts, But Just This One Time….
By Patricia Stoltey I hate writing to prompts. And I’ve been writing short stories for years without much luck getting published. So when I had an opportunity to submit to an anthology of retold folk tales, in a genre I never write, I almost passed up the chance. Then my sense of adventure kicked in…not…