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  • Writer Critique Groups – How to Find the Perfect One for You

    By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Writers search for the best ways to receive helpful feedback for their manuscripts. We all desire to develop new skills by learning from those who know the craft. Face to face meetings offer an opportunity for the writer to reach professional goals. Meeting with a select…

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  • How to Write Killer Emotions

    By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Writing killer emotions means the writer understands a character’s unique temperament, wants, needs, flaws, desires, goals, challenges, and backstory. With these traits, a writer fills the pages with the character’s deepest of feelings. Experts state that up to 90% of communication is nonverbal. Character driven body…

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  • Evaluating Your Writing Goals

    By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Evaluating our professional writing life can leave us at a crossroad. Do we continue with the same social media, marketing, and branding methods as 2016, or do we dive into new or enhanced methods that have the potential to raise our visibility? How does a writer…

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  • Writing Goals and Success Find Success with Your Writing Goals

    by Alycia W. Morales     @AlyciaMorales Every year is a chance to start over. We set new goals, attempt to achieve new plans. Sometimes we stick to them, some times we fail. Thankfully, we have 365 chances to accomplish them. [tweet_box design="default" float="none" inject="via @AlyciaMorales #BRMCWC #amwriting"]Find Success with Your Writing…

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  • How Writers Approach Deadlines

    By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Deadlines tend to have a bad reputation among writers. Editors require writers to submit contracted work on a specific day. Let me re-phrase that: Editors require creative, out of the box thinkers to submit a writing protect on a specific date. Not a week or months…

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  • crossword, blueridgeconference.com Celebrate National Crossword Puzzle Day!

    by Bethany Jett, @BetJett Today is National Crossword Puzzle Day - a wonderful day for word-lovers! Some of my favorite word-games include Balderdash, Taboo, Scrabble, the original Slingo, and I found a free giant crossword puzzle app that my husband and I are now racing to fill in. Oh...and who…

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