Some life changes drift past you so slowly, you don’t recognize them as they’re happening. It may take years before you can look back and say, “Oh, that’s where things started to change for me.” Other life changes stand up, grab you by the shoulders, and give you a shake. “Here. Now. This,” they say, […]
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New Year’s Resolutions for Writers – On the RMFW Blog
If you’re setting your goals and intentions for the coming year, are you focusing on goals revolving around wordcount or number of submissions? If so, it’s not too late to think about your writing life from another perspective. What do you need this year to grow yourself as a writer? Do you need to sharpen […]
Welcoming the Light Once Again
We look to the light, this time of year. We feel the shortness of the days, the darkness of the cold nights, the bite of the winter wind. We know to our ancestral bones that the sun is reluctant to spend much time gazing on us in December. We huddle inside, where it’s warmer, we […]
What Writers are Thankful For – On the RMFW Blog
We writers have much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving season, no matter how many rejection letters we’ve received, or how many revisions we’ve made on our latest work-in-progress (with the end still out of sight). I’m counting some of the things I’m most grateful for as a writer this month, and you’ll find them […]
Songwriting Sparks at the Bluebird Café
The Bluebird Café in Nashville has a storied past, as die-hard country music fans will tell you. Not being one of those, I hadn’t heard of it before this past weekend. Shame on me. The Bluebird Café is a tiny little “listening room” tucked into an unassuming strip mall, far from the noise and neon […]
The Value of Writing Short Stories – On the RMFW Blog
When another writer asked me if writing short stories was “worth it,” I realized it depends—as it does in so many aspects of life—on how you define “worth.” For me, it’s worth it for many reasons. But you may define “worth” differently. This week, I discuss this concept over on the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writer’s […]
