Tomorrow we shine the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Spotlight on Chris Devlin, Contest Chair. She has a big job, and we aim to help her out a little by spreading the word about this outstanding opportunity for unpublished writers. You’ve been working hard on your manuscript–writing, revising, self-editing, then rewriting after your critique group reviews…
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A Muse By Any Other Name
By Mary Gillgannon In a post a couple of months ago, I was discussing the creative process and mentioned my muse “not speaking to me”. Afterwards, I began to think about the concept of a muse, what it means to me and why I think of mine as female. The word probably originates from the…
Getting in Bed with Your Co-Writer: The Art of Collaborative Writing
By Kym O’Connell-Todd and Mark Todd For us, successful collaborative writing is like good sex. First comes foreplay: we begin to brainstorm, teasing out seductive story lines to see if there’s something that we both want to spend time developing. And we’ve been doing this long enough that we already have a pretty good idea…
Mario Acevedo Shares Some of His Favorite Authors
By Mario Acevedo A recent questionnaire on Facebook asked to list fifteen authors that influenced you personally. I jotted down some names, then as I thought about it, kept revising the list. After I had posted the list I realized I had overlooked one of the authors. So I’ll start this edited list with him….
Those Little Bells
By Mark Stevens (This blog is a note to self. Thanks for letting me share.) I recently read a New Yorker profile of the writer Lydia Davis and I felt as if I’d entered a very calm, clear space. It’s a long piece, by Dana Goodyear, but it’s behind a paywall at the New Yorker…