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The “Inner Editor” Debate: To Write Fast or Edit as You Go? – On the RMFW Blog

April 8, 2022 by Kelley Lindberg Leave a Comment

You’ve heard the advice to “turn off your inner editor” as you get your first draft down on paper. That’s great advice. But I don’t always follow it. To find out why, pop over to the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers blog this week to read my article “Writing Process: Shutting Down Your Inner Editor—Or Not.” […]

Filed Under: Writing Craft Tagged With: editing, inner editor, NaNoWriMo, revision

Repurposing Those Writing Fragments – On the RMFW Blog

August 15, 2021 by Kelley Lindberg Leave a Comment

If you’re like me (and every other writer), you’ve got a folder (or 12) of scraps of writing you’ve never done anything with. Writing exercises, ideas for scenes you never used, character sketches for characters you deleted after the second chapter. Those writing fragments can be mined and repurposed, turned into something new, or maybe […]

Filed Under: Writing Craft Tagged With: poetry, revision, writing exercises

Top 10 Ways Not to Start a Story, Part 2 – RMFW Blog This Week

July 9, 2021 by Kelley Lindberg Leave a Comment

This week, I’m diving deeper into why some story beginnings may not work well for your book. Please click here to check out my article on the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers blog: “Top 10 Ways Not to Start a Story, Part 2.” As always, I’ll see you back here on my own site in a […]

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Breathing Life into Lackluster Beginnings

October 2, 2013 by Kelley Lindberg Leave a Comment

By Kelley Lindberg Beginnings. They aren’t easy. You’d think they’d be. After all, that’s where every story starts. How hard can it be, really? You just jump in a start telling the story. But many potentially good stories are stabbed through the heart by the dull wooden stake of a lackluster beginning. The problem with […]

Filed Under: Writing Craft Tagged With: beginnings, craft, openings, revision

Are Your Settings Stuck In a Rut?

July 17, 2013 by Kelley Lindberg 1 Comment

by Kelley Lindberg As humans, we often fall into ruts. We go to the same place for lunch more than we should admit. We read the same types of books and watch the same types of TV shows. We shop at the same stores and rotate through the same recipes for dinner every week.   […]

Filed Under: Writing Craft Tagged With: craft, description, revision, setting

Springing into Revision Mode

April 3, 2013 by Kelley Lindberg Leave a Comment

by Kelley Lindberg Seems like every writer I know is in revision mode right now. Must be something to do with spring – renewal, rebirth, re-emergence of optimism… After a long, cold winter, we’re all ready for some fresh ideas, so we’ve dragged out our dormant novels and are attacking them with budding optimism. I’m […]

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