Tagged: Blue Ridge Conference

  • Tracking Your Story Characters

    by DiAnn Mills @diannmills Have you ever been working on a novel and realized your method of tracking character relationships looked like a toddler’s art work? While writing my last novel, my characters’ connections to each other and the plot bewildered me. Unless I solved the problem, my readers wouldn’t…

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  • The Work of a Writer…

    by Edie Melson @EdieMelson [tweet_box design="default" float="none" inject=" - #writing #quotes"]"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others." Jonathan Swift[/tweet_box]  

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  • Which Publishing Journey Would You Prefer?

    by Tamela Hancock Murray @Tamela_Murray Sometimes I’ll have one of those days where I’m minding my own business, when I pick up the phone to discover the author on the other end of the line is irate. (No, this is not a rerun of an article from the 20th century.…

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  • contracted book How To Write that Book You Just Contracted

    by Lucinda Secrest McDowell @LucindaSMcDowel Have you just signed a contract to write a book and now have that angst in your stomach wondering if you can actually fulfill your end of the agreement? What if something comes up between now and the deadline and you can’t produce a quality…

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  • traditional publish Why I Waited for a Traditional Publisher

    by Cindy Sproles @cindydevoted You've heard it, and I’ve said it a hundred times. What’s your rush to publish? I, better than anyone, know what it’s like to wait. I know how hard and frustrating it can be. My writing journey to publication took seven years. I get it. When…

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  • Writer, God Has A Time for Us

    by Sarah Van Diest @SarahVanDiest When I was a young, romantic, teenage girl, I learned to play the theme from Romeo and Juliet on the piano. A Time for Us echoed through our living room walls and out our windows many dreamy evenings. In my mind, there would someday be…

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