Modern practice and my personal bias suggests that there is no defense for a prologue. The ancient Greeks used the prologue to tell a short story that explained the setting or relationship for the work that would follow. They considered the prologue a piece apart from the main narrative. Literally, “a speech before” the story…
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Don’t miss the chance to get registered for May’s Annual Education Event
Do you have the right stuff in the right place in your book? Do you know your genre or do you not know your genre? Those are the questions that will be answered next month at the Annual Education Event. If you haven’t seen the information about it in the newsletter and the e-mails going…
Stifling Self-Doubt by Aimie Runyan
Self-doubt is the hallmark of most writers, unless maybe you’re Stephen King. I have always thought it a good thing in measured doses. False confidence leads to bad books, and so long as I can quiet the nagging voice of in my ear, I welcome Doubt as the frumpy, sarcastic cousin of the more charming…
Rocky Mountain Writer #42
Aimie K. Runyan & Promised to the Crown Aimie K. Runyan’s first novel, “Promised to the Crown,” launches this week. The novel is set in 17th Century France and New France, a.k.a. Canada. The idea for the book started for Runyan in third grade when she took an instant interest in the French language and…
Focusing Your Energy Where it Counts
I’m probably the last person in the world who should be talking about focus.
You know that person with her head so high in the clouds that she put her car keys in the freezer? Or pulls into the neighbor’s garage, gets out of her car, walks into the house, and wonders who changed the linoleum and why the cat is the wrong color?