Last week, I started to tell you all the ways I try to gather information that will be helpful to my career as a writer. But the list was so long, I had to break it into two blogs. Last week I mentioned online classes and lecture packets, Twitter, blogs, online articles for writers, and [...]

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If there’s one thing I love more than writing classes, it’s writing conferences. There is no end of good that can result from attending one! Do I sound overly optimistic? Probably because I am the kind of person who looks for the good in anything. So I generally end up finding it.
The first writers conference [...]

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I’ve been writing seriously for seventeen years now.  Once I made up my mind to truly pursue this career (which I had dreamed about since sixth grade) the first thing I did was to seek out other writers.  I stumbled across NJ Romance Writers and by association, Romance Writers of America (RWA), joined the group, [...]

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         This week we are talking about conferences. I love conferences as much as taking classes. It’s like classes on steroids for me. There are workshops for learning about the craft of writing and the business of getting published. There are agents and editors and published authors just hanging out. There are [...]

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