Frustration is a powerful emotion—so powerful, in fact, that it’s often the emotion that launches your novel’s main character into action. How can you use a series of mini-frustrations to build your character’s stress levels, increasing anticipation, tension, and suspense? Read my article on the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers blog for tips: “Frustration—Your Character’s Catalyst.”
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Halloween-Worthy Writing Prompts – On the RMFW Blog
It’s that time of year when ghoulies, ghosties, and things that go bump in the night are around every corner! So fire up your Halloween energy and write yourself a scary story to celebrate the season. To get you started, I’ve posted my annual list of 10 new Halloween-worthy writing prompts on the Rocky Mountain […]
How to Write Loglines for Novels – On the RMFW Blog
A logline is what you get when an author takes 90,000-words’ worth of character, conflict, and compelling story, and distills it down into a single sentence. Sure, that sounds easy, but most authors would rather have several fingernails ripped out to avoid writing a logline. I’ve got some tips that might make the process a […]
Where to Begin the Beginning of Your Novel?
Story beginnings are hard. Start too early, and readers are bored. Start too late, and readers feel like they can’t catch up. So what’s the best place to start? For one possible answer, check out my blog post on the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers blog: “Why ‘Fashionably Late’ Is a Great Way to Begin.”
How Do Your Characters React to the World?
Every individual reacts to any given situation in their own unique way. That is as true for fictional characters as it is for real-live human ones. But sometimes as authors, we make all our characters act the same way we’d act in that situation. What if we instead made our characters observe and respond to […]
Writers: What Can You Do with Rejection? – On the RMFW Blog
There are lots of ways to handle rejection letters, but let’s face it, most of them are unproductive. Over on the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers blog, I’m sharing 10 things to do with rejection that you may find helpful while you’re drowning your sorrows in that family-sized bag of chocolate chip cookies: “10 Things to […]
