By Aaron Ritchey So, in a story, you have the hero with a flaw who overcomes their flaw to beat the villain and win the day. Hurray! We all love a good story arc because it gives us hope—deliriously flawed creatures that we are. Let’s flash back, oh, I don’t know, five years. I was…
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Change
By Pamela Nowak Change…it’s a quiet word, not really representative of all that’s associated with it. For each of us, it has a unique set of implications. Since I’m in a contemplative mood, I’ll spend today exploring them. When I was younger, change represented the unknown, with all its uncertainty. It was something I usually…
A Book List for Holiday Shopping — Part Three
The members of Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers are both traditionally and indie-published in almost any genre you can imagine. Last weekend I posted a few books available for purchase along with a buy link so you can learn more about the novels (and click that “Buy” button, of course). That was just a drop in…
Adventures in Self Publishing
By Karen Duvall Self-publishing continues to be a hot topic among writers and just when I think I’ve heard enough, there’s more I need to learn. I dipped my toe into the self-publishing pool for the first time about a year and a half ago. The water was ice cold and I ran away screaming,…
Adventures in Genre Writing: Lesson Five
By Jeanne C. Stein Story Structure – Plotting, Inciting Incident This class we look at story structure, beginning with constructing a plot. There are as many ways to plot a story as there are writers to plot them. When I started writing the Anna Strong series, I used the “seat of the pants” method—I knew…