All of us at BRMCWC hope you have a great holiday today...   For some extra fun... If you could interview someone from 1776 who would it be and what would you ask them?   [tweet_box design="default" float="none" inject="#Writing #Writinglife @BRMCWC #BRMCWC"]Happy 4th of July -- Writing Prompt[/tweet_box]

By Dr. Chrissy Whiting-Madison @joyfulgurly Have you ever sent a text to someone who totally misunderstood what you were trying to say?  Perhaps you were being sarcastic, and the recipient read it as rude. Maybe you were being sincere, and the recipient read it as mocking. We have all been…

by: Shannon Redmon @shannon_redmon That’s a question all authors must answer at some point in their careers. There are many different reasons—some toll away for days on end hoping for big payoffs, while others want the fame and fortune of bestsellers like Nicolas Sparks or James Patterson. Not all writers…

By Aaron Gansky @ADGansky I don’t watch a lot of television, but one show I enjoyed was Monk. If you’re unfamiliar with it, it was an old detective show based around an OCD ex-cop with an incredible power of perception. A dead body would show up, the San Francisco police…

By W. Terry Whalin @terrywhalin I’ve written magazine articles which appear in publications with over a million subscribers. Other articles reach 100,00 to 200,000 readers, which is way more than any of my books will reach. As a long-time journalist writing for different publications and a former magazine editor, I’m intimately…

by Edie Melson @EdieMelson We're about two weeks away from the end of the 2023 Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference. It's always one of the high points of my year, but it's also an exhausting experience. And that exhaustion isn't limited just to those directing a conference or on…