I hate it when things aren’t working right. Last week was a doozy. First, it was the microphone I use to record podcasts. (Yes, RMFW, the microphone you purchased to help start the podcasts– all $50 worth. It worked for two years & 77 podcasts and then pfffft.) It looked the same as always. Nothing…
Category: General Interest
Five Reasons to Submit Your Work to Anthologies
I’m sure by now you’ve heard that Found: Short Stories by Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, is a finalist in the 2017 Colorado Book Awards from Colorado Humanities. And hopefully you’ve also heard that I have an essay in a new anthology called Still Me … After All These Years: 24 Writers Reflect on Aging. Those…
Moving from Fear to Courage in Diversity Writing … by Rebecca Hopkins
The very first novel I ever started writing took place in a small town in Texas. The outsider newspaper reporter main character was on her way to solving some town mystery. It was quite similar to my own life at the time. I worked as a small town Texas newspaper reporter from up north. And…
Spring Cleaning: Give Your Writing Space a Makeover
I have several writing spaces, including the couch, the library, and (weather permitting) the patio. But when I really need to focus, I have a designated, distraction-free place I can retreat to. I call it my “cave,” but it’s more like a hobbit hole: cozy, comfortable, and colorful. Here’s how I did it—complete with photos!—and…
Is your writing moving along like you hoped for in 2017?
I don’t know about you, but one of my New Year’s Resolutions was to get my writing life better organized which included writing more often, mucking out my office-cum-storage room, getting a business plan done, and deciding if I was going to go ahead and self-publish the first three completed historical romances in the series…