Tagged: Blue Ridge Conference

  • NaNoWriMo Words When You Fall Short on NaNoWriMo

    by Alycia W. Morales     @AlyciaMorales It's halfway through the month of November, and some of us have gone hard at NaNoWriMo while others may feel like a fish out of water. (I just watched Finding Dory with my kids...) Life takes over, other jobs or projects take precedent, and we…

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  • sense of place blueridgeconference.com Part Two: 11 Ways to Create a Sense of Place

    by Bethany Jett, @BetJett Welcome back to Part Two of our series 11 Ways to Create a Sense of Place. If you missed the opener to this series where we mentioned 1. Food, 2. Dialect, and 3. Conducting Research, be sure to check out Part One here. We’ll continue our eleven…

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  • 8 Ways to Promote Your Author Friends

    by Alycia W. Morales     @AlyciaMorales As writers, we're always talking about ways we can promote our latest release. We know the pressure of book sales and the stress of having to advertise our own product without sounding like a broken record or like we only want money. We all hate…

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  • When God Takes Writing Failure & Turns it Into Writing Fruit

    by Edie Melson @EdieMelson But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control… Galatians 5:22-23 For me, this verse is tough. Some of the things listed are easy. Some…well…not so much. In my travels this fall, I’ve had the opportunity to hear about other the…

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  • blueridgeconference.com What Writers Can Learn From Politicians

    by Bethany Jett, @BetJett I'd planned on posting Part 2 in the series of 11 Ways to Create a Sense of Place. However, on my drive home from a meeting tonight, all the similarities between writers and politicians flooded through my mind. It's amazing what goes through my brain when there…

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  • 25 Ideas for Your Memes

    by Alycia W. Morales    @AlyciaMorales Memes (pronounced meem, not me me) are not only fun to share, they're fun to create. So what should one do with a meme? What types of memes should we make? What exactly are they useful for? [tweet_box design="default" float="none" inject="via @AlyciaMorales #BRMCWC "]25 Ideas…

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