By Patricia Stoltey I hate writing to prompts. And I’ve been writing short stories for years without much luck getting published. So when I had an opportunity to submit to an anthology of retold folk tales, in a genre I never write, I almost passed up the chance. Then my sense of adventure kicked in…not…
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Different Voices Create a Beautiful Blog
By Patricia Stoltey I feel like someone pulled me through a knothole backwards. I took a little time off last week and went to visit family in Illinois. And I went unplugged for five days. The five days was great. Now I’m suffering the consequences. My To Do list is so long I’m as jumpy…
Well, doggone — no RMFW post today?
By Patricia Stoltey I have an explanation. See, I was going to do the Coming Events post today, but then I realized one of the classes I wanted to promote started last Monday. I moved the Events post back to Sunday, and that worked fine. Except, of course, now there was nothing scheduled for today….
Writers’ Halloween Fear List: BOO!
By Elvira Stoltey and Ghoulie Luek This time of year brings out ghosts, goblins, and spooky apparitions. Of course we writers, often the creators of such paranormal specters, stare down spooks and fanged creatures knowing they are but a backspace stroke away from their demise. While we may show bravado with the monstrous muses of…
Introducing the Only-Slightly-Frazzled Blog Editors, Julie and Pat
Pat: Well, Julie, here we are wrapping up two full months of the new Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Blog. Thanks to our techno-goddess Wendy Howard, Mark Stevens and the RMFW Board of Directors, and a great team of regular and guest bloggers, I think it went pretty well. Julie: I’m loving the blog but really…