Are you ready to attend a writer’s conference? The reality is, if you want to be published – and stay published – you need to attend Writer’s Conferences. But you shouldn’t attend unprepared. This is why the mulit-published, award-winning novelists and conference coordinators on the My Book Therapy staff wrote: The Truth about Conferences: the MBT guide to how to have a successful writers conference. Writers conferences are overwhelming. But when you prepare yourself, they can also change your life. To celebrate this book – and to give you some tips and tricks – we’re having a Truth about Conferences Webinar on Thursday night, 7pm CST on our MBT Open House channel. To join us, and to get a free excerpt, LIKE our Facebook page (the excerpt and registration […]
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I’m on the road helping my kids move into college today, so instead of a conversation with Sally, I have a special offer for you (and Sally!) I’ll never forget my first writers conference. Fresh from my first term as a missionary, I had decided overseas that I wanted to write a novel. While on home service, I worked slavishly to finish it, and when I discovered a Christian writers conference in my area, albeit small, I couldn’t wait to arrive, plunk down my novel before some editor, and return with a check in hand. Right. Sadly, I was woefully unprepared for the conference. I read nametags and titles, and a sweat broke out on my palms. I saw people with slick proposals and writing credits behind their names and […]
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Endless Summer, Part Four: Back to School
You know what it’s like. You can’t wait for the fun and frenzy of getting ready to go back to school. First, you plot a course for the new clothing and the “must have” styles, then on to the pens, pencils and the perfect notebook. It wouldn’t be complete without that greasy lunch at the food court. Ahhh… back to school. You wouldn’t think of neglecting the back-to-school ritual. Neither should you disregard preparing for your new year of writing. You need to gear up for your success. Here’s why. Setting a definite start date makes it tangible. When you know exactly what date you will start, every part of you gears up for it. You learn how to prepare. It forces you to think about your writing year coming […]
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Story Building through Scenes
I was reading a book on my way home from the Oregon Writers Conference and while the plot started out interesting, I quickly lost interest due to the slow down in scene development. This is a real struggle for writers. A struggle for me. I am tempted to stick so close to the conflict I forget to slow down and let the readers into the character’s world. When I do slow down to open up the character, I really slow down. Almost bog down, in my opinion. That’s why I love rewriting. But even on a rewrite, I can leave too much in the story. Working through a substantive edit of my next book, Once Upon A Prince, I realized I’d left too much character history and some tidbits of […]
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