One of the best ways to find out if a writer’s conference is worth your time—and money—is to talk to people who’ve attended. That’s why I Ioved what I heard from Laurie Garrison who attended our 2019 conference. Laurie had written a book titled In Sheep’s Clothing, and had gotten an agent but the agent…
When writers ask me what’s the best thing they can do for their writing careers and ambitions, I say just like my early writing teacher Kathryn Fanning did: Attend writer’s conferences. Here are a few things I gained from attending writer’s conferences that I couldn’t have gotten anywhere else: At the first conference I attended,…
Ahhh, summertime ~ a time to play and enjoy family with lots of picnics and ice cream. AND time to prepare for WRITERCON 2021! You’re busy and may be struggling to keep a consistent writing time this summer. BUT events like WriterCon 2021 only come once a year. Here are THREE UNEXPECTED reasons to drop…
When writers ask me what’s the best thing they can do for their writing careers and ambitions, I say just like my early writing teacher Kathryn Fanning did: Attend writer’s conferences. Here are a few things I gained from attending writer’s conferences that I couldn’t have gotten anywhere else: At the first conference I attended,…
I hold a bachelor’s degree in nursing. You might wonder what that has to do with writing. Well, not much. All I can say is that the 20 years I spent in nursing gave me plenty of fodder for stories. That’s why when I started my writing career I felt intimidated. I expected my writing…
I went to my first writer’s retreat with a proposal I wanted to finish. First off, let me say this: the word retreat is somewhat misleading. There’s no spa treatments or beaches involved. Sure it’s fun and hopefully you’ll come home with fresh inspiration, but there’s a lot of work to do. It’s the kind…
