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: RMFW
The Greatest Blogpost Ever Posted
So this is going to be the last RMFW blog post that I’m doing for a bit. I told Patricia Stoltey and Julie Kazimer that I’m stepping down. I just can’t juggle it all. So I promised Ms. Kazimer thatI would write the greatest blogpost ever. I thought about calling it “The Greatest Story Ever…
“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…
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.
Platform Building At MPIBA
Jane Friedman, former publisher of Writer’s Digest and current columnist for Publishers Weekly defines author platform in her wonderfully succinct way, as “an ability to sell books because of who you are or who you can reach.” For many of us, the definition above may feel as if we’re in this platform building project all…