Tagged: Blue Ridge Mountain Christian Writers Conference

“I’ve read the story you sent me. It’s not good. Try another form of writing.” A literary agent sent that comment in response to my first attempt at fiction. “You don’t even know what you’re trying to say, Lori. Until you do, you shouldn’t try to get someone to publish you.” Words from one of the first …[ read more ]

Don’t say “I work with words.”Rather say, “I handle hazardous material so combustible it has destroyed careers and incited revolutions.” Don’t say, “All I can do is write.” Rather say, “All I can do is  create life-infused dispatches from behind enemy lines using the same compound that sparked what the uninformed refer to as the …[ read more ]

This is the story I’ve dreamed that one day I could tell. Back in the early 90’s, I attended a Christian conference in Boston. It was there that I met Les Stobbe, a literary agent, who was using my newspaper articles in his writing workshops. I’d always wanted to write and here I was, meeting …[ read more ]