Our monthly feature, The RMFW Spotlight, is intended to provide members of Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers with more information about our board members as well as featured volunteers. This month we’re pleased to present Mari Christie. 1. Mari, tell us what you do for RMFW and why you are involved. I’ve just started as PR…
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“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…
The Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Blog Needs You!
First: Co-editor Julie Kazimer and I are looking for one new regular monthly contributor to the RMFW Blog. If we have several applicants, you get a bonus point if you’re already familiar with WordPress. You receive a second bonus point if you are funny (as in humor writing). And you get more points if you…
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…