Writing from the Peak Archive

Scholarship recipient, Alice Andersen, shares her experiences from 2018 PPWC, Don’t Quit! When I attended PPWC 2018, it was my second writing conference experience. For me, […]

NaNoWriMo has ended, and every writer that participated has come out of hibernation with a 50,000 word novel. Congratulations! You did it! Now what? It’s […]

Dear Readers,  First off, CONGRATULATIONS to everyone who participated in NaNoWriMo this year. It is quite a feat to do NaNo, and if you made […]

How many ways do you have to reach your target audience? Facebook, Twitter, YouTube videos, Instagram, Pinterest, blogging. What about podcasting? Several years ago, I […]

Grammar, hmmm. I found it surprisingly difficult to write this post. As it turns out, I am not entirely sure how I feel about the […]

Notes from November’s Write Brain For all of us non-technical types who have been waffling about how to go about setting up an author website, […]

I’m sitting in a coffee shop with a cute pink notebook, my computer, a yummy scone, and a warm cup of coffee next to me. […]

The year is almost over, and it occurred to me I’ve never covered the topic of modern sensibilities. You know what I mean, right? Well, […]

  Nobel Prize winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro was born November 8,1954. He’s the author of six novels and has been awarded the Booker Prize, an […]

What is Pacing? Let me explain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up. Pacing is the length at which a story is told: […]

Dear PPW Readers, Welcome to November and the first day of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). Are you participating? Last month Writing from the Peak […]

Over the past month, I read Mary Shelley’s book, Frankenstein. I don’t recall if I ever read it in high school or in any college […]

Lindsey walked into her house through the garage door, exhausted by the endless meetings at work. She flipped the light switch in the dark entry […]

Emotion in Screenwriting and How Novelists Can Use It. What a treat to have Kevin Ikenberry at Write Brain in October. His presentation proposed to […]

Today, Pat Conroy would have celebrated his seventy-third birthday. Best known for The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini, he wrote eleven novels and […]

Final Prez Says from Bowen Gillings For the past eighteen months, it has been my honor to serve as the President of the Pikes Peak […]

Whether work has you swamped, daycare cancelled, or your day is filled with stuff, making time for NaNoWriMo can be challenging. And stressful. The stress […]

When I first started out on my writing journey I got big into National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). It was the perfect solution to so […]

My NaNoWriMo journey began in 2011, with the drafting of my novel Roadside Zoo. I participated four more years. I did not NaNo in 2016 […]

Dr. Robert Cole’s advice about listening applies to reading as well. Do you “listen” to what you’ve written? Robert Coles is a child psychiatrist, professor […]

Are you ready to rummmmble? Or at least ready to knock National Novel Writing Month out of the park? Your resident writing cheerleader is here […]

November. Cooler weather, crisp leaves, pumpkin spiced everything, and that crazy time of year called National Novel Writing Month, affectionately called NaNoWriMo—easier to say, too. […]

When I was younger, I told anyone who asked (and many who didn’t) that I wanted to be a writer when I grew up. I […]

Motivation and muse are tricky things. Sometimes they are discovered through careful planning or trial and error. Sometimes they hit you like a freight train […]

Dear PPW Readers, Welcome to October. This month is, traditionally, the beginning of the fall season. A time to get ready for winter. Put the […]