This post was originally published on August 21, 2013 The writing life is hard. Don’t get me wrong – I love to write, and I’m full of gratitude every day that I’m lucky enough to be a writer. Well, okay most days I’m grateful. There are times when I want to shout “what did I…
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Getting Physical: Ways to Make Your Characters Come Alive … by Lori DeBoer
This post was originally published on September 12, 2013 Whether you write genre or literary fiction, you must be able to bring your characters to life. When characters are first conceived, they invariably seem a little wooden, too recognizable as constructs of the author’s imagination. The people that populate your stories need room to grow;…
Writing is an Act of Love … by Nicole Disney
This post was originally published on October 23, 2013 When I first decided it would be fun to try blogging, I had this vision of myself creating ten, twenty, even thirty posts. They were going to be stacked tight and aligned like a fresh ream of paper, somehow undisturbed by any of my three wall-vaulting…
Holiday Wishes
A Colorado RMFW holiday wish to all our members and readers. May your season be filled with love, warmth, and good cheer.
Down The Rabbit Hole of Research
by Terri Benson This post was originally published on September 9, 2013 Just about any form of writing requires research, some more than others. Being a historic romance and cozy mystery writer, I do my fair share of research on a wide variety of topics. And that’s a lot of the reason I write –…