Tagged: Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference

  • On Target with Techno-thriller Readers Part Two

    By James Hannibal @jamesrhannibal You can work a high-tech gadget into a cozy mystery, but that won’t make it a techno-thriller. To be a techno-thriller, a story must have distinct moving parts set up on a collision course that slam together into a perfect mesh. The Vocabulary of Moving Parts…

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  • Is It Time To Start Your Writing Over?

    by Lynn Blackburn @LynnHBlackburn  I love finding posts I wrote several years ago and seeing where I was in my writing journey and what I was learning. I wish I could tell you that I read them and think, “Wow, I’ve matured so much that this no longer applies to me,”…

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  • Why Their Book And Not Mine?

    By A.E. Pope @AEPopeWriter If you are being completely honest with yourself, you have probably experienced a moment where the success of another writer has caused you to feel this way. At least, I know I have. I would see the success of someone else and be eaten up inside…

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  • WRITING IN THE LYRIC REGISTER

    By Aaron Gansky @ADGansky Much to my father’s chagrin, I studied poetry in college. Yes, I’m that guy. What’s worse, I studied it at the post-grad level as well. Pops likes to remind me that poetry is what people write when they can’t write novels. I like to say that novels are…

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  • Set Your Time To Write

    By Karynthia Glasper-Phillips @QT_HisTime "for it is time to show favor to her; the appointed time has come.”— (Psalms 102:13) NIV Several months  ago,  just as the Covid-19 pandemic began, I was in prayer about concerns of family, ministry, career, and writing goals, like many of you. One focus of my prayers…

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  • Partner with God as You Write

    by Katy Kauffman @KatyKauffman28 Her eyes followed the dance instructor’s every move. On the periphery of the dance floor, she swayed to the rhythm of the music as he guided dancer after dancer across the ballroom. Waltz, foxtrot, swing dance. The instructor knew every style, and he became the perfect…

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