By Robin D. Owens There you are, drudging through your current project, convinced it is cat crap and an idea wiggles in. A beautiful, sparkling, WONDERFUL idea. Something so alluring, that will be so much more fun to write than the current story (especially if the current story has been bought and you’ve taken money…
Category: General Interest
Adventures in genre writing…Lesson One
By Jeanne Stein Welcome, everyone. Let’s have some fun. I suppose most of you looked at the topic question and shrugged. Genre is everything that’s not literary, right? It’s what Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers is all about, right? But the subcategories of genre books have both expanded and tightened in the last few years. An…
Wrapping Up a Trilogy
By Jeffe Kennedy A couple of weeks ago I was privileged beyond belief to hear one of my longtime heroes speak – fantasy writer Stephen R. Donaldson. He read and discussed his lifetime of work at Bubonicon. I also got to be a guest author at the same event, making it all that much more…
RMFW on Social Media
By Patricia Stoltey If you haven’t been out and about lately, you may not know that you can find Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers on: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RMFictionWriters This site reaches 4,153 Facebook readers and writers as of 8/11/14 Twitter https://twitter.com/RMFWriters This site has 3,408 followers as of 8/11/14. When there are new posts to the blog,…
How Exhaustion Helps Writing
By Trai Cartwright How does exhaustion help writing? It doesn’t. Of course it doesn’t. Writing through mental and physical exhaustion has always been a struggle of mine, and it seems in the past year or two, I’ve heard much the same from many of my writer friends. Whether it’s acute over-programming or serious health ailments,…