Peggy Waide & RMFW-U Online Classes The guest on the podcast this time is the only person in Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers with the title of “dean.” Peggy Waide is the dean of RMFW University, an online learning program that is offering an increasingly rich series of classes. In fact, there’s a class coming up…
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How to Avoid the Dangerous Trap of the “Perfect Writing Life”
We all have that one dream in our heads. You know the one. It’s the dream of the perfect writing life, the one where you don’t have a day job or a house to clean or a car to fix or errands to run. Instead, you have hours of empty time you can fill as…
Power-charge your blurb with hooks
As we prepare for this year’s RMFW conference, I’m guessing that many of you are tearing your hair out, trying to write good blurbs or condensing your 100,000-word novel into a short, captivating sentence worthy of the so-called “elevator pitch.” I’m going to expand on a blog by my fellow RMFW blogger, Mary Gilgannon. She…
Rocky Mountain Writer #97
2017 Writer of the Year Panel – Live from The Tattered Cover We did this in 2015 and 2016 and here it is again—the live taping from the panel with the finalists and winners for the Writer of the Year and the Independent Writer of the Year. This event was taped on Wednesday, August 23…
My #1 Way to Make the Most Out of Conference
This September will be my third time attending the Colorado Gold, and my sixth conference overall. In those last five conferences, I’ve made friends with other writers, found critique partners and beta readers, gotten requests from agents, met famous people (squee!), and learned a lot about writing craft. I’ve also gained confidence; over the course…