Dialogue – Putting Words in Your Characters’ Mouths By Jeanne C. Stein Last month we looked at plotting and defining our inciting incident. In this lesson we’ll touch on one of the most important building blocks in writing: Dialogue. There are lots of authors who excel at dialogue, but none better than mystery writer, the…
Category: General Interest
POLITICS IN FICTION
By Kevin Paul Tracy I’ve recently been inundated with fiction manuscripts to critique that contain a fair amount of political commentary. I’m not referring to the kind of politics you find in Game of Thrones or The Wheel of Time or TV’s Defiance – those are internal, fictional intrigues that apply only to the fiction…
Crossing Colfax: A Story by Story Review
By Mark Stevens Short-story anthologies can be tricky affairs. Collecting short stories in one volume from multiple authors can end in a patchwork mess. Not the case with Crossing Colfax, a sweeping collection of writing from the ranks of Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers. The only rule was that each story had to touch on Colfax…
Our New Year’s Resolution – Improve RMFW Membership
By Saytchyn Maddux-Creech, Wendy Howard & Corinne O’Flynn Happy New Year! Did you make any New Year’s resolutions? Have you started achieving your writing goals? Or are you still recuperating from the holidays? This year the RMFW Board made a New Year’s resolution to improve membership. Last month, in between eggnog, opening presents, and toasting…
Time to Update Your Bucket List for 2015
By Patricia Stoltey I don’t do resolutions anymore. Goal setting is good (see yesterday’s post from Liesa Malik for more on that topic), but updating my bucket list ranks at the top of my year end ToDos. Just because something was important enough to add to my list in the past doesn’t mean it should…