The festive holiday season fills us with excitement, hope, cheer, enthusiasm, optimism. For several months we have something to look forward to. For many of us it is the excitement to see family and friends we haven’t seen is a long time, for others it’s seeing what Père Noël left for us under the Christmas…
Tag: inspiration
“The Silver Moment”
It’s a term I made up to describe a twist in fiction that can make the “black moment” more shocking to a reader. The black moment is a part of the basic structure of fiction that has been knocking around for centuries. The inciting incident. The mounting tension. Complications. Climax. The black moment. Denouement. There…
Lazy Writer’s Syndrome
Strategies to keep your story hot and productive There’s nothing worse than Lazy Writer’s Syndrome. There are no symptoms in its early stages. It only becomes apparent when we look up from our busy lives and realize we haven’t been writing for—oh, ten days, ten weeks–ten months. We have an ongoing accountability system in my critique group….
I Write
I write. A quip or quote, a snippet of discourse, I write. The ghost or shade, of idea or gist, I write. With pen or quill or tapping keys, I write. Passion for words, enamored of story, I write. Inspired or blocked, I have to write in spite. I write.
Retrospect
I was re-reading some of my past posts here on the RMFW blog. Can you believe I’ve been a contributor for two years? Who knew I had so much to say? I would’ve expected to be ridden out of here on a rail just weeks in! As I revisited some of my old topics, there…