The Explorati Teen Writers Boot Camp is not a Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers sponsored program, but its leader is Trai Cartwright, an RMFW member and well known instructor of classes and workshops on writing, especially screenwriting. Today she has turned her scheduled guest spot over to one of her teen writers By Luke Tasker Last…
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How Exhaustion Helps Writing
By Trai Cartwright How does exhaustion help writing? It doesn’t. Of course it doesn’t. Writing through mental and physical exhaustion has always been a struggle of mine, and it seems in the past year or two, I’ve heard much the same from many of my writer friends. Whether it’s acute over-programming or serious health ailments,…
How Being an Aspiring Writer is Like Looking for A Media Job
by Trai Cartwright What could being a filmmaker have in common with being a novelist? Lots! I’ve got a foot in both worlds, so I’m always seeing where they cross streams—including some great advice about how to frame your writing as a job. With all the news about how Colorado Film is growing, it feels…
The Top 5 Best Pieces of Writing Advice I Ever Got … by Trai Cartwright
Last Thursday, a friend and I both had one of those explosive days you live for as a writer: the day when your story just electrifies you, delights you, reveals itself to you. She told me she had just written the scene that told her it was just another 25 pages until the supernatural elements of her book could be introduced. I’d just written a scene that was wholly unexpected: a dude who wasn’t supposed to reveal his true nature for many (many) pages to come suddenly whipped off his mask.
Current and Upcoming Events with Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers
The Colorado Gold Writing Contest for unpublished novelists will be accepting entries until June 1st.