by Alycia W. Morales @AlyciaMorales As we count down the final days until we gather at the Ridgecrest Conference Center for the 2020 BRMCWC, many have had questions about what to expect and how things will work. Not only are there many of you who are new to the conference, there…

by Alycia W. Morales @AlyciaMorales At the beginning of 2020, we had so many plans for the year. And then … many of those plans were cancelled or postponed. You are not alone if you have been bummed out for the past six months. Lonely. Missing your writer friends. Missing conferences.…

by Alycia Morales @AlyciaMorales In 2010, I attended my first Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference. It was my first writers conference. I was a total newbie who had always dreamed of being a writer but had never pursued it as a career. Sure, I’d been writing since I was…

by Alycia W. Morales @AlyciaMorales We recently posted a sneak peek at the 2019 Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference faculty list. It's a great one, so make sure you check it out by clicking on this sentence to follow the link. There is so much to do at a…

by Alycia W. Morales @AlyciaMorales Writing a manuscript is an exhilarating journey, but just because we've typed The End doesn't mean we're finished with our manuscript. Not. Even. Close. What comes next is rewriting. This is where we try to make our writing better. We fix our soggy middles. Deepen…

by Alycia W. Morales @AlyciaMorales Self-edits can be tricky. We get so close to our manuscripts that we begin to miss the flaws. Our eyes and our brains skim right over them. So how can we improve our writing before we submit it to a freelance editor for polishing or an…