[tweet_box design="default" float="none" inject=" on @BRMCWC #writing #writingquotes"]"Half my life is an act of revision." John Irving[/tweet_box]

by DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills The Twelve Days of Christmas has been given a new twist. This version is for writers. [tweet_box design="default" float="none" inject="-@DiAnnMills on @BRMCWC #writing #Christmas"]The Twelve Days of Christmas for Writers[/tweet_box] On the first day of Christmas, My true love gave to me The Blue Ridge Conference…

by Lynn H. Blackburn  @LynnHBlackburn With all the things we have to do during the holidays, it’s easy to set our writing aside. But what if we could incorporate our writing into some of our favorite holiday traditions? Here are a few suggestions that will help you “keep calm and write…

My friend Kim (aka The Well Dressed Writer) loves red shoes. She says they're sassy and classy and can elevate an outfit from boring to brilliant. She's right. I like comfortable shoes. Clogs. Crocs. Converse. These go-with-everything clearance finds that slip on easy when I'm headed out the door for…

[tweet_box design="default" float="none" inject=" @BRMCWC #writing #writerslife"]“For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.” —Catherine Drinker Bowen[/tweet_box]

By Katy Kauffman @katykauffman28 Like a textbook. That’s how my writer’s voice sounded when I started to write my first book. I could write devotions that sounded like a one-sided conversation, but my book sounded academic like the textbooks I had in college—factual, cold, distant. I knew I couldn’t leave…