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Selah Award Finalists for 2024
[tweet_box design="default" float="none" inject="#writingcontest #BRMCWC #writing"]Selah Award Finalists for 2024 from @EversonAuthor[/tweet_box] In the category of ANTHOLOGIES, the finalists are: A Thrill in the Air: A Mosaic Christmas Anthology V Deb Elkink, General Editor The Mosaic Collection Dancing in the Rain: Stories to Shelter the Soul Deb Elkink, General Editor…
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Don’t Be Afraid to Write Funny
by A.C. Williams @ACW_Author Laughter is good medicine, my friends, and we laugh a lot in my family. Granted, usually we’re laughing because otherwise we’d be crying. Life has been a struggle for a long season, but rather than wallowing in much-deserved and certainly justified angst and exhaustion, we choose…
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Top Tips for BRMCWC (from an insider and multiple conference attender)
By Debb Hackett @debb_hackett Blue Ridge 2024 is rapidly approaching. This might be your first or fifteenth time attending, and as always, it’ll be a different experience for several reasons: Different faculty – but all preparing to make a difference in your writing journey Different attendees – who knows who…
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How Do You Know What To Write?
by Blythe Daniel @BlytheDaniel You stare at a blank page. Your scribbles are notes that you can’t sort out. You have journals you aren’t sure where to find what you started writing for a book someday. Does your organization of thoughts cause you to feel overwhelmed? I think one of…
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When You Feel Like Your Writing Isn’t Good Enough
by Maggie Wallem Rowe Tell me you haven’t experienced it, too. You attend that writers conference or watch a publishing awards ceremony online, and those unwanted thoughts arrive faster than flies on an apple pie: I’ll never be as good a writer as she is. Look at all those titles…
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The Pronouncedly Pronounced Way
by Rhonda Rhea @RhondaRhea Sometimes I like to use words I don’t altogether understand. It’s so I can sound smarter. And perspicacious, sagacious, and astutaquacious. Yes, I did make up that last one—hoping it would make me sound even astutaquaciouser. I admit, it does get embarrassing when I mispronounce a word…
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