It Pays To Do Your Homework by Emily Downs
When I was attending Bethel College in Indiana, I sold my homework. It’s not what you’re thinking—I didn’t sell test answers or term papers out of the trunk of my car—I sold my homework to magazines.As any student will attest, homework is rather time consuming and as a young married [...]
Your Story: Emily Downs
I know that today is the 15th, so I SHOULD be posting an anecdote today, but with it being tax day I figured I'd wait until the day after so all of you procrastinators have a chance to read. And, maybe, I'm so busy getting ready for the Festival of [...]
Wednesday’s Weekly Writing (W)Prompt
Last year I had the pleasure of attending the Write-to-Publish Conference in Illinois. I learned so much and met such wonderful people (like Diana Flegal here, an agent with Hartline Literary Agency).Today's writing prompt is about your conferences experiences - what's your favorite/fondest memory of someone you met at a [...]
What Would You Like to Know?
I can hardly believe it - in three days I'll be at my first writer's conference - augh!!! I'm very excited!As I mentioned before, I'm a little bummed that I haven't had my business cards printed yet, so I'm going to go ahead and make some generic ones (thank you [...]
Conference Season!
It's that time of year folks - time for conferences! While the ACFW Conference isn't until September (and I AM going this year!!), next week I'll be attending my first conference. This year I'm going to the Festival of Faith & Writing at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.I can't [...]