Two little words can carry a wealth of promise. A promise of adventure, magic, nourishment of the soul, and, you know, margaritas. What are these two mystical words? “Girls’ trip.” I recently spent almost a week in the beautiful Cabo San Lucas area of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula with two dear friends I’ve known for four […]
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Character Development: Turning Strengths into Weaknesses (and Vice Versa) – On the RMFW Blog
We know we’re supposed to give our characters both strengths and weaknesses to make them more three-dimensional and realistic. But have you thought about how a character’s strength can become a weakness in certain situations? And how a weakness could become a strength? That’s what I’m talking about over on the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers […]
How to Make 2024 a Better Year (Mayhem Optional)
Welcome to 2024, a shiny new year full of promise and good intentions and definitely not heinous deceptions. Like you, I’m positive this is the year eight billion people will suddenly and inexplicably—all prior evidence to the contrary—morph into rational, caring, kind human beings. I hope I bought the right shoes for the occasion. Anyway, […]
Holiday Gifts for Writers 2023 – on the RMFW Blog
It’s back—my annual list of holiday gifts that any writer on your list will love! Writers can be hard to shop for, what with them being bleary-eyed and stuck in alternate realities most of the time. But never fear, my gigantic list of gift ideas will surely have just the thing for that hard-to-shop-for writer […]
Sharing Experiences with Your Characters – On the RMFW Blog
In our writing, we often make our characters go through experiences we haven’t gone through ourselves, such as breaking a horse, picking a lock, riding in an ambulance, or frosting a wedding cake. It’s so easy to fall back on the internet and watch videos or read blog posts about how those experiences might feel. […]
Novel Writing: A Love Story
I’ve started writing a new novel, and we’re in the honeymoon phase together, my novel and I. I’m infatuated with this shiny new idea, digging into the research with wild abandon and gleefully exploring my new characters. It’s like starting any new relationship—I have thousands of questions for my characters to learn who they are […]
