Are you home from the ACFW conference? Finally unpacked? I took a terrible head cold home with me from the plane (thank you coughing guy sitting next to me). But, what a great weekend we spent together at the annual ACFW Conference! I hope you came home filled with encouragement and new ideas on how to make your writing breathtaking. Now what? Conferences can be overwhelming – between the requests for proposals or full manuscripts, new story ideas, craft lessons, marketing epiphanies and loads of new friends. Where and how do you start to process all this information? First, sit down a make a list of everyone you met, from editors to fellow authors, to newbies. Then, start reaching out. If they are editors or agents who […]
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Let me tell you my story!
Five days until the ACFW conference. I can’t wait! Before we get started, if you are going and you would like to attend the MBT Pizza Party/Frasier Awards, there are still tickets available at the door. It is $25, first come, first serve. It’s going to be fun. Chip has something special planned, and Jeane Wynn is going to give you some fabulous tools for the care and feeding of readers even before you are published. And, I have something fun up my sleeve. I promise, this is not your average awards ceremony! Now…let’s talk about how we’re going to behave at while pitching at conference, huh? Of course, we’re there to work and learn, to fellowship and hopefully to have some fun. But when we’re pitching, it’s important to lay some […]
Read the RestFirst Chapter Checklist for your Frasier Entry
Is it ready? I know that it’s hard as a writer to know if your first chapter is ready for the eyes of a reader – whether it be an editor or agent….or a judge for the Frasier. I know because I go through the same angst every time I write a book. Thankfully, I send it off to my writing partner, Rachel Hauck, and she’s brutally and sweetly honest with me. And now I’m going to help you be brutally and sweetly honest with yourself by giving you a Super Secret Frasier First Chapter Checklist. These are things that you need to make sure you’re communicating in the first chapter. 1. Have you created sympathy for your character so we love them? 2. Have you shown us your character’s […]
Read the RestThe Ten Point Romance
Last week I mentioned that I’d show you how the 10 Points of a Romance fit into developing your story — Instead, we had a lively MBT Chat about it on Monday Night! To see how to incorporate the 10 Points into YOUR Romance, read the chat notes here! Your Book Therapist
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