I’ve written about this in the past – this notion that on social media “yes” is conditional. I attended a writing conference in late February that made me think I need to write about it again. Here’s the thing: The beauty of social media is also its terror. Everybody on social media gets to tune…
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Can you get every word right in a whole damn book? Can you? Of course you can uphold standards of precision, clarity, and accuracy in a sentence. Or a page. Or a poem. Or a piece of flash fiction if there’s a $1,000 prize involved. Or a speech at a wedding. Or a cover letter…
Rocky Mountain Writer #118
John E. Stith & Pushback Every now and then, writing gets “sidetracked by life.” Just ask John E. Stith. After a productive stretch of writing mystery-tinged science fiction novels in the 1980’s and 1990’s, life got in the way. So writing took an understandable hiatus. But now, John Stith is back and looking forward to…
The Risks of Character Neglect
When I started writing my first book, I didn’t plot. I chose a time period I loved and imagined a dynamic, larger-than-life hero and a heroine who was a lot like me. Since it was a romance, I knew it ended up with them together and happy. But that was all I knew. About three…
My Love Affair with the Written Word
Writers love to read. Writers love other writers. Writers love the written word. There is nothing that makes my heart and my mind tingle more than a clever, profound, or artfully worded turn of phrase in something I’m reading. “A fanatic can no more shut his mouth than he can open his mind.” – Will…