August RMFW Workshop Homicide 101 (For Writers, Not Criminals) Saturday, Aug. 23 1 to 3 PM Sam Gary Branch Library 2961 Roslyn St., Denver (Stapleton neighborhood) Presented by: Tracy Brisendine One of the most fascinating and feared crimes is murder—it can completely immobilize a community and tear a family apart. It can also make for…
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Orange is the New Black is Back So I Spent My Blog Writing Time Watching it…
By J.A. (Julie) Kazimer My original post was going to be something very profound and enlightening, something that would make your writing career, and eventually put you at the NY Times Bestseller List, and then I started watching the 2nd season of Orange is the New Black… If you haven’t seen Orange is the New Black,…
The Top 5 Best Pieces of Writing Advice I Ever Got … by Trai Cartwright
Last Thursday, a friend and I both had one of those explosive days you live for as a writer: the day when your story just electrifies you, delights you, reveals itself to you. She told me she had just written the scene that told her it was just another 25 pages until the supernatural elements of her book could be introduced. I’d just written a scene that was wholly unexpected: a dude who wasn’t supposed to reveal his true nature for many (many) pages to come suddenly whipped off his mask.
Getting in Bed with Your Co-Writer: The Art of Collaborative Writing (Part Three)
By Kym O’Connell-Todd and Mark Todd This is the third in a three-part installment on strategies we’ve found successful as collaborative writers. In the first part, we discussed things to look for in a compatible partner as well as examples of how that plays out in practice. In the second, we started to explore how…
The Nature vs. Nurture Clash (aka Plotters vs. Pantsers) … by Jim Heskett
All across the internets, published and unpublished writers blog about how to write, edit, and market your materials. I find many commonalities and universal truths… show don’t tell, don’t be afraid to be bad in first draft, don’t join a critique group that meets on Wednesdays, etc. I might have misheard that last one, but I think you get my point.
If you spend enough time researching writing advice, one Nature vs. Nurture clash always recurs: Plotters vs. Pantsers.