Wrapping Up the Writing Year  by Alycia W. Morales,@AlyciaMorales If your year has looked anything like mine, you’ve been super busy, faced trials and frustrations, and you’ve come into December wondering what on earth you’ve managed to accomplish in the last eleven months. January is just around the corner, the…

By Alycia W. Morales, @AlyciaMorales It's important for writers to be writing. Otherwise, it's difficult to call oneself a writer. Eh? Some days it's a struggle to sit at the keyboard and put words on that screen. We all have them. The cursor blinks at us as if taunting us to…

by Alycia W. Morales @AlyciaMorales November is quickly approaching! As we focus on pulling out our sweaters and boots, drinking all the pumpkin spice lattes we can handle, and photographing the changing of the leaves, several writers will be gearing up for NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). For the month…

By Alycia Morales @AlyciaMorales You’ve just finished your manuscript. Maybe it’s your first draft and you think it’s pretty good. Maybe you’ve rewritten it five times and now you want to see if you can get it published. The next step is to hire an editor, but a lot of…

Welcome to our final Friday Faculty Five post before the 2017 conference. We hope you've enjoyed getting to know some things about our faculty members and feel confident about meeting them this weekend! Our final faculty five post features our fearless leaders, DiAnn Mills and Edie Melson, as well as…

by Alycia W. Morales     @AlyciaMorales If you've been writing for any length of time - and submitting, hopeful for publication - you are well aware of the sting of rejection. If you're human, you know the sting of rejection. We've all dealt with it. When someone turns you or your…