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Moving Beyond “Write What You Know”The adage “write what you know” has been a cornerstone of writing advice for decades. It encourages writers to draw from their own experiences,...
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10 Ways to Handle Rejection LettersWell, drat. You just received a(nother) rejection letter from an agent or editor. You can spend the next 48 hours sulking, watching Netflix,...
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Real Writers Top EightReal Writers Top Six Why AREN’T you attending “ One-Day MFA ”? Got a good excuse, do you? Fabulous piece by Angela Ackerman here on...
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What Readers Say Behind Our Backs (and Sometimes to Our Faces)I recently had the privilege of moderating a discussion between a local author and an inaugural book club in Silverthorne. After the two hour...
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“Wawa” Your WritingWhen my mother passed, I inherited her Hammond organ. My husband, both an engineer and a guitarist, welcomed it into our home, for it was...
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Ditch the Fear and Embrace Book MarketingMy second novel, Blindspot , releases today so I’ve spent much of the last month getting ready for the launch, which includes podcasts,...
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Personal Observations About Taking Everyday Things for GrantedStill recovering from a recent surgery, I’ve somehow missed the greening of spring, scent of heavy-laden lilacs, hyacinths in full-blooms,...
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Map Out a Plan to Boost Your Writing CareerWhat do you need to take your writing to the next level? Do you wish you were stronger in some aspect of your writing skills? Or maybe the...
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The Second Thing That HappensYour characters have attitudes before your story starts. Before page one and sentence one, they already have a strong point of view about the...
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Is Your Writing Lazy?This last month of writing has been about stepping back and taking a look at what I have written from a different point of view. I have been...
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Resilience – by Rick GinsbergResilience may be one of the most underrated of characteristics; as human beings it seems that the world is increasingly asking us to up our...
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‘Twas a Dark and Stormy Night: Creating Micro-TensionEvery work of fiction is fueled by some grand conflict or tension, but on the paragraph-to-paragraph level, the story gains momentum through...
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Too Many Eyes?With one week left before the deadline to enter the Colorado Gold Literary Awards, we are receiving more entries every day. I’m not here to...
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From Subtle Unease to Heart-Pounding Thrills: Using Tension in FictionFor my second novel, Blindspot, I ventured into a new genre, that of psychological suspense. It’s the type of book I gravitate to as a reader...
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Three ThoughtsThe Eclipse Who among us, given a sextant and a supercomputer, could accurately predict the arrival of the next solar eclipse? Yeah,...
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BrevityI’ll begin with a John Dryden wrote: “If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams – the more they are condensed, the...
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Commitment = Setting Yourself up for SuccessSuccess is dying knowing you did your best every single day. I have these words taped to the front of my planner which means I read them 3 to...
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National Poetry Month—Not Just for Poets!April is National Poetry Month. So why should that matter to fiction writers? Because poetry is the marriage of words and ideas, blending the two...
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PICTURING HISTORY: Finding Stories in PhotographsWhen I wrote my historical novel, My Heart Lies Here , I did as much research as I could about the Ludlow Massacre in Trinidad, Colorado. The...
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A Winning Workshop ProposalThank you to all the writers from our community and beyond who submitted proposals for the Colorado Gold Conference. As I finish my third year on...
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Truths My Podcast Guests Have Taught MeHear Us Roar , the weekly podcast I host for the Women’s Fiction Writers Association, has been going since May 2018. The show has been...
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Make Your Characters More RelatableHonestly, I was kinda blogged out—until, after a multitude of phone calls and emails to kickstart a LOA from my night job, the following thought...
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Book Review: Make Every Word CountThe full title of this book is: Make Every Word Count: a guide to writing that works—for fiction and nonfiction by Gary Provost. Gary, an...
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Announcing the 2024 RMFW Anthology, Without Brakes—Fingers Crossed – By Paul MartzThe September 7 publication date is six months away, but news like this will not wait. First, the title. When Linda and I teamed up for the...
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Set Your Sights High, Don’t Settle For Anything LessA friend is getting ready to teach an online college-level course about “the business of creative writing.” He asked me for any strategies I...
