Category: Writer’s Life

  • 3 ways to create margin with time, blueridgeconference.com 3 Ways to Create Margin with Your Time

    by Bethany Jett, @betjett Stressed? Overwhelmed? Spinning your wheels? When life gets too busy with looming deadlines and demands on my time, I tend to react in the one way that comes naturally. I hide. From life. Which incidentally, doesn’t work. Because in this game of hide-and-seek, life finds me…

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  • Fall Back in Love with Writing

    by Edie Melson @EdieMelson Between deadlines, edits and rejections it’s easy to fall out of love with our writing. It can get so bad that we begin to dread sitting down at the keyboard. When that happens to me my mind begins to reprioritize my life. I can suddenly find…

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  • Make Money While Writing Your Manuscript

    by Alycia W. Morales      @AlyciaMorales As Christian writers, our main goal is to share God's love with those who read our words. Of course, it's nice to get paid to share those words, and writing is as much a job as teaching, building, or counseling. Contracts can be elusive, and…

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  • Writer's Fiscal Year, BlueRidgeConference.com Create Your Own Writer’s Fiscal Year

    We’re one month in to 2017…how are your New Year’s resolutions holding up? They say it takes twenty-one days to start or break a habit, so we should have some analytics. Did we go to the gym three times per week? Have we stopped drinking soda? Are we meeting our writing…

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  • Prom How Writing is Like Prom

    by Alycia W. Morales     @AlyciaMorales If you've ever been to a prom, you know that getting to the dance is a process. It's not as simple as getting dressed and showing up. No, it's much more complex than that. So is writing. [tweet_box design="default" float="none" inject="@AlyciaMorales explains. #BRMCWC #amwriting"]How is…

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  • Publishing Trends 2017, BlueRidgeConference A Collection of Publishing Trends for 2017

    by Bethany Jett, @BetJett There’s been a lot of chatter about trends in publishing, some of which is a little scary and perhaps controversial. For instance, a lot of my friends who write Christian fiction are concerned about sales and where the genre is headed as we see a decline…

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