By Rebecca Taylor I think there may be a singular question that, at some time or another, burns in the soul of every writer. “Am I good enough?” As we barrel towards the 2014 RMFW conference this weekend, I know it’s a question that many writers are hoping to have answered for them. Whether they…
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Series or Standalone or The Problems of Estimating When You Don’t Outline
By Carol Berg In my published writing career, I’ve started six projects. Three of them, I intended to be standalone novels. Only one of those three stayed that way. One project I sold as a three book series and it turned out to be four. Clearly I’m not great at estimating. My problem is that…
How Exhaustion Helps Writing
By Trai Cartwright How does exhaustion help writing? It doesn’t. Of course it doesn’t. Writing through mental and physical exhaustion has always been a struggle of mine, and it seems in the past year or two, I’ve heard much the same from many of my writer friends. Whether it’s acute over-programming or serious health ailments,…
How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Library by Guest Author Travis Heermann
Research and Cultural Connections in Fictional Worlds by Travis Heermann A few weeks ago I was having a conversation about surgical masks. A member of my family recently was forced to wear a surgical mask for a time to reduce risk of infection due to a compromised immune system. When I was living in Japan…
Raising the Bar
By Shannon Baker Photos by Mark Stevens I am overwhelmed with gratitude to be named Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers 2014 Writer of the Year. See how many times Writer is used in that title? That means it’s an award for a writer voted on by writers. And for this one moment in time—well a whole…