Tagged: Blue Ridge Conference

  • How to Live and Love the Writing Life

    By: DeAnna Lynn Sanders @deannalsanders I haven’t always wanted to be a writer. It was number three on my list: Veterinarian Artist Writer Cross cultural worker It didn’t take me long to jump from #1 to #2. While I loved animals, especially dogs, I learned by the time I was…

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  • Writer, Get Out Of Your Chair!

    by Lynn Blackburn @LynnHBlackburn Writer, get out of your chair! Wait? What? That’s not right, is it? This is a site for writers. Writers write. BICHOK, right? (That’s Butt in Chair Hands on Keyboard). Let me tell you a little story. We’ll pretend it’s hypothetical but between you and me it…

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  • Three Steps To Being A Career Writer

    By A.C. Williams by @acw_author Writing is a challenging career. I’m not sure there is another industry out there so torn between the artistic and the practical. Because, make no mistake, writing is an art. But if you can’t make your art practical, it won’t support you enough for you…

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  • Need a Little Extra Writing Motivation?

    By Dr. Chrissy Whiting-Madison @joyfulgurly When I completed and published my first book, Choosing Happiness, being disciplined to sit at my computer and write was easy. I was passionate about what I was writing about. In fact, I wrote the majority of my book over Christmas break, with my laptop…

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  • Don’t Just Read Your Writing—Listen!

    by Katy Kauffman @KatyKauffman28  The written word doesn’t only stay written. Nor is it completely silent. Even if we don’t read out loud, our minds “hear” the words on a page. As we read silently, our brains pronounce the words. (Like right now, yes?) Sentences don’t stay stagnant on a…

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  • The REST of It

    by Rhonda Rhea @RhondaRhea Ever get to that “I need to peel a roll of cookie dough and eat it like a banana” state of stressed? Cookie dough. So good, but so bad. But I’m talking about a shaky-hand kind of stress that goes beyond even the “I have to pour…

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