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Interviewing Real People Can Enhance Your Fiction – On the RMFW Blog

September 12, 2022 by Kelley Lindberg Leave a Comment

Can your fiction benefit from the real-world experience of someone who’s experienced, learned, or is passionate about something in your scenes? If so, interviewing that someone can be the best thing you can do to elevate your story! On the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers blog, I talk about the reasons why interviewing an actual human […]

Filed Under: Writing Craft Tagged With: interviewing, research

Can We Stop Using Writing as Punishment in Schools?

August 30, 2022 by Kelley Lindberg Leave a Comment

For as long as there have been teachers, kids, and writing implements, writing has been used to punish unruly students. Whether it was writing “I will not talk in class” twenty times on the chalkboard or being told to pen a dreaded 500-word essay on “respect” after a too-rowdy assembly, most of us have memories […]

Filed Under: teachers, writer's life Tagged With: education, essay, punishment, students, teachers

How to Write Weather into Your Scenes – On the RMFW Blog

August 16, 2022 by Kelley Lindberg Leave a Comment

Talking about the weather is so mundane. Writing weather into your stories shouldn’t be. Make weather work hard for you in your fiction! See my tips this week on the RMFW blog: “Using Weather to Strengthen Scenes in Your Writing and Storytelling“

Filed Under: Writing Craft Tagged With: scenes, settings, weather

When Storms and Direful Thunders Break

August 1, 2022 by Kelley Lindberg Leave a Comment

Lighting, of course, is an essential part of any stage performance. Usually, the lighting is planned and provided by the play’s director and stage crew. Last week, at a performance at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, something else was at hand. I’d gone with a friend to see of The Two Gentlemen of Verona on the […]

Filed Under: writer's life Tagged With: atmosphere, setting, Shakespeare, theater

Character-Building: What Does Freedom Mean to Your Protagonist? – On the RMFW Blog

July 12, 2022 by Kelley Lindberg Leave a Comment

When you’re creating a character in your story, it’s important to make them as well-rounded and three-dimensional as possible. You must know their history, their desires, their goals, their obstacles, their quirks, and the way they’ll react in any given situation. Have you considered how they define freedom, and what they might do if they […]

Filed Under: Writing Craft Tagged With: character, freedom

Ten Things I Can’t Live Without as a Writer That Are Conspiring to Kill Me

June 29, 2022 by Kelley Lindberg Leave a Comment

They say what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. But I’m starting to think what makes me stronger is going to kill me anyway, just for giggles. So here it is, this week’s list of things I can’t live without as a writer, but which I’m certain are going to shorten my lifespan by years. […]

Filed Under: writer's life Tagged With: inspiration

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