Tagged: Becoming a Professional Writer

  • Don’t Be Afraid to Write Funny

    by A.C. Williams @ACW_Author Laughter is good medicine, my friends, and we laugh a lot in my family. Granted, usually we’re laughing because otherwise we’d be crying. Life has been a struggle for a long season, but rather than wallowing in much-deserved and certainly justified angst and exhaustion, we choose…

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  • Top Tips for BRMCWC (from an insider and multiple conference attender)

    By Debb Hackett @debb_hackett Blue Ridge 2024 is rapidly approaching. This might be your first or fifteenth time attending, and as always, it’ll be a different experience for several reasons: Different faculty – but all preparing to make a difference in your writing journey Different attendees – who knows who…

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  • How Do You Know What To Write?

    by Blythe Daniel @BlytheDaniel You stare at a blank page. Your scribbles are notes that you can’t sort out. You have journals you aren’t sure where to find what you started writing for a book someday. Does your organization of thoughts cause you to feel overwhelmed? I think one of…

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  • When You Feel Like Your Writing Isn’t Good Enough

    by Maggie Wallem Rowe Tell me you haven’t experienced it, too. You attend that writers conference or watch a publishing awards ceremony online, and those unwanted thoughts arrive faster than flies on an apple pie: I’ll never be as good a writer as she is.  Look at all those titles…

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  • The Pronouncedly Pronounced Way

    by Rhonda Rhea @RhondaRhea Sometimes I like to use words I don’t altogether understand. It’s so I can sound smarter. And perspicacious, sagacious, and astutaquacious. Yes, I did make up that last one—hoping it would make me sound even astutaquaciouser. I admit, it does get embarrassing when I mispronounce a word…

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  • Questions Writers Ask

    By Larry Leech @LarryJLeechII Oh so many questions. Music or no music? At home or at a coffee shop? With friends or by oneself? Work on a blog or a book? First person or third person? Short chapter or long chapter? Write or edit? A popular villain in the “Batman”…

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