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Halloween-Worthy Writing Prompts – On the RMFW Blog

October 11, 2024 by Kelley Lindberg Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Writing Craft Tagged With: Halloween, holidays, prompts, writing exercises, writing prompts

Spooky Season Writing Prompts – on the RMFW Blog

October 14, 2023 by Kelley Lindberg Leave a Comment

October is the perfect time to curl up with a scary story. It’s even better if you’re writing that story! Whether you lean towards the funny sides of Halloween or the darker sides of the haunting season, I’ve got 10 writing prompts to get you started. Bounce over to the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writer’s blog […]

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Writing Exercises—Not Just for New Writers – On the RMFW Blog

May 14, 2022 by Kelley Lindberg Leave a Comment

As with any artform, in writing there’s always more to learn, new techniques to try, new strategies to tackle. It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been writing or how many books you’ve written—you can always find ways to improve. For all of the writers I know, writing is a continuing adventure in “leveling up” their […]

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Fire Up Your Writing Energy – Bar Scene

March 25, 2022 by Kelley Lindberg Leave a Comment

Writing can go through seasons—some seasons are hot and fast, filled with fireworks, while others are cold and sluggish, like a Sunday morning in December. After one of those cold, unproductive seasons, getting back to our computers to do some fiction writing can feel like a sun-kissed reward for having survived all those lost gloves […]

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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

Why Does Writing Look Effortless?

April 2, 2021 by Kelley Lindberg Leave a Comment

Of all the arts, why is writing the only one that looks effortless? Why is the struggle of learning to write so invisible to the outside world? Can they not see the blood, sweat, late nights, and myriad revisions? No one wakes up in the morning and decides to be a concert pianist by lunchtime. […]

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