Writing from the Peak Archive

By Jennifer Lovett Herbranson Are you getting FOMO? The Fear of Missing Out by not being on Instagram? Well if you aren’t using it, you […]

Are you doing NaNo? Do you know what day it is? How are your fingers holding up? Had a shower recently? Where is your family? […]

You have decided to write a short story. Congratulations! Short stories can be great fun to write, and like any writing project, they can be […]

By Tammila K. Wright We all have that dream. The phone rings. Hollywood is calling. They want to develop your book into a movie. It […]

By DeAnna Knippling So you’re thinking about doing NaNoWriMo this year for the first time. Or you’re thinking about doing better this year. Or you’re partially through […]

By Jennifer Lovett Herbranson National Novel Writing Month is right around the corner, and I’m going to talk to you about marketing while you’re writing. […]

By: Margena Holmes My husband and I recently celebrated our 33rd anniversary by taking a trip to South Dakota. He wanted to visit Mount Rushmore […]

By Catherine Dilts Eight years ago I received a helpful bit of writing advice. A multi-published author recommended having a minimum of three projects going […]

Five fast tips to help your worldbuilding. By: DeAnna Knippling So, there I was, writing a story but didn’t have time to stop and research […]

By: Debbie Lane What do agents look at first when receiving query letters? How should you go about deciding if you should or shouldn’t sign […]

By: Amy Armstrong Almost exactly two years ago, I moved to Denver with a lot of debt, a broken heart, and the urge to finally […]

by: Jennifer Lovett So, there’s this narrative going around that marketers are telling authors to do email marketing and do it in a way that […]

By: Margena Holmes We’ve all heard that phrase before, either from someone we’ve just met (once they find out we’re writers), or someone we know […]

By: K.J. Scrim Do your characters seem to be missing that spark? Are they feeling flat as the paper they are being written on? Maybe […]

With heartfelt gratitude to the membership of Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, Margaret Mizushima is thrilled to announce that she was elected their 2019-2020 Writer of […]

By: Jason Henry Evans For the last couple of months, I can’t really say I’ve been in my writing hole. It’s probably closer to the […]

By: Robin Laborde A special two-part Write Brain:The New Zebulon Amy Armstrong, Presenterand250 Words That Will Make or Break YouNatalie Mae, Presenter 2020 Zebulon The August […]

By: Jason Henry Evans Three weeks ago I fulfilled a lifetime dream of publishing my first novel. I decided to self-publish my first novel for […]

Pikes Peak Writers is known for our annual conference, but we also do tons of programming throughout the year, much of it free!  One of […]

By: Jennifer Lovett Did you happen to attend a writer’s conference recently where you heard every author must have a blog? Or maybe you heard […]

By: Deb McLeod Recently the issue of backstory came up again with a client who is writing a YA in the aftermath of a pandemic. […]

By: Shannon Lawrence You’ve envisioned a world where some large-scale event has wiped out hordes of humanity.  Your characters are alive in your head, probably […]

By: K.J. Scrim No matter what genre you write in, the need for a crime scene of some sort may crop up somewhere in the […]

by: Margena Holmes As an author, you will almost always have doubts at one time or another about your writing. Is it good enough? Am […]

by: Catherine Dilts Today I offer a peek behind the curtain to the struggles and triumphs of writing. Here is my advice to aspiring authors, […]