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Gearing Up for a Wait
by Rhonda Rhea @RhondaRhea I read the other day that one of the best anti-theft systems for a car is—(Are you ready for this?)—a manual transmission. So many gears, so few who know how best to grind them. I remember well sitting in the driver’s seat of my brother’s car, looking…
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A Writer’s Adventure List
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Our writing careers are met with victories, successes, challenges, rejections, and lots of writing time in between. One way to stay encouraged and focused is to create a Writer’s Adventure List, those things that are personal, achievable, and unique to every writer. Writers are motivated to…
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BRMCWC Professional Headshot Opportunity
BRMCWC will once again be offering headshots this year. Mallory Jo Photo will be returning to the conference to take photos. [tweet_box design="default" float="none" inject="#BRMCWC #Writing #Writingconference"]BRMCWC Professional Headshot Opportunity on @BRMCWC[/tweet_box] If you would like to have a headshot take please follow this link for more information and to…
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WRITING EXPLOSIVE SHORT FICTION
By Aaron Gansky @ADGansky The last class I taught at the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writer's Conference was how to write explosive short fiction. It’s a topic near and dear to my heart. As an editor of The Citron Review, an online literary journal specializing in flash and micro fiction,…
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Writer, A Blank Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste
By Larry Leech @LarryJLeechII Blink. Blink. Blink. Oh, that cursor. That stupid cursor. Mocking me. On a blank Word doc. Blank. Like my mind. On a day that I need to write. Being a full-time freelancer for the past 17 years, my motto has been, “If I don’t work, I…
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Valuable Book Marketing Secrets for Authors
By Edie Melson @EdieMelson Over the course of my career I have published through big publishers and through smaller, traditional presses. Of course there are differences between what support a big and small publisher provides. But—and we all need to wrap our brains around this one truth—our responsibility as the…
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