A fellow member of Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers did not see any immediate impact on the careers of those she witnessed working so hard on our all-volunteer staff, either at the annual Colorado Gold Writers Conference, nor throughout the year on our board and support positions. She asked me if I found participation in RMFW…
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TAKING CRITICISM
By Kevin Paul Tracy Some of the most respected classical writers throughout history did literary criticism as either a sideline or as a career before they sold their own novels. From Edgar Allen Poe to Oscar Wilde, then great writers would often decimate their peers in papers and writing journals, eviscerating them in public treatments….
TURNING OUR NOSE UP AT THE INDULGENT
By Kevin Paul Tracy The other day I stumbled across, of all random things things, the old Punk Rock hit, “Turning Japanese.” (“I think I’m turning Japanese. I think I’m turning Japanese. I really think so!“) Before I knew it I was laughing and doing a silly dance there at my desk. It had been…
No Need to Bleed: Painless Ways to Breach the Blank Page
By Lori DeBoer “It is easy to write. Just sit in front of your typewriter and bleed.” Ernest Hemingway likely wasn’t recommending that one literally open a vein. I think. Besides being dark and witty, this quote keeps coming back in different forms, attributed to disparate authors, because for most of us wordsmiths, it speaks…
Reading Like a Writer
By Lori DeBoer We read for many reasons—to be entertained, to be swept up in a story, to be transported into an interesting world, to laugh, to cry, to learn, to gain insight and to be inspired. But when we become writers, we need to read like a writer. We become active readers, slowing down…