Last week I was able to attend the Blue Ridge Mountain Christian Writer’s Conference. What a week! It’s hard to sum up exactly everything that happened or what I gleaned, but here are some highlights:
- Meeting agents, publishers, and editors who are committed to creating excellent Christian content
- Sitting with the Hollywood screenwriter Brian Bird at breakfast and hearing about his latest projects and screenplays
- Finding other bloggers and writers who have a passion to share the message of Christ
- Pitching my book idea to different people in the writing industry and getting feedback
- Learning from others how publishing works
- Genre night where I dressed like a disheveled mother of four girls:
- Realizing just how technologically illiterate I am and that I really need help in this area (No, I could NOT figure out how to rotate the above picture!)
- Attending workshops and classes where we worked on our writing/blogging skills
- Hearing multiple God-stories and seeing future authors work to get these stories documented
I was honored to be around so many amazing writers, literary agents, and publishers at this conference. There are multiple stories to be told, and I’m more inspired than ever to record the ones I see unfolding around me every day.
