A report from South Dakota: Cool Writers, A Controversy and a Rock Star Deadwood, South Dakota is 385 miles north of Denver. You shoot straight through Cheyenne, parallel the eastern border of Wyoming and watch trains tugging their long snakes of coal. The road climbs east through the Black Hills. In late September, gold aspen…
Tag: Mark Stevens
Are You Following the New RMFW Podcast Series Hosted by Mark Stevens?
Is there anything Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers doesn’t do for its members (and all writers for that matter)? Not too much. One of the newest offerings is a series of podcasts that features a variety of professionals to entertain and enlighten all those who tune in. Hosted by Mark Stevens, the podcasts are another great…
Do You Write Candy?
Do you write candy? Or something—you hope—more filling? Do you hope the next book you write is everyone’s guilty pleasure? Or do you want readers to stop and admire your prose stylings like a rare orchid? Do you want your readers to enjoy the experience as if they were going to an amusement park? Or…
Attitude
Another note-to-self in the form of a blog … I’ll cut to the chase: what we do is a choice. We put ourselves in this situation—“forced” to think about stories and characters and plots and craft. The burden of it all; the agony! The tortured artist at work–just look. Over there in the corner, writhing…
Nobody Writes Like You
By Mark Stevens Can you write like your favorite writer? I know I can’t. You might have Ursula Le Guin or Patricia Highsmith or Ernest Hemingway in mind when you write something, but somehow it comes out on the page as, well, you. Somewhere in all those choices of words, sentences, characters, images, plots, moods,…