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This Fantastic Friday, I’m at the Cedar Falls Christian Writing Conference once again. This time my fellow author and editor, who also happens to be my daughter, will be co-presenting a workshop<\/a> about What a Manuscript Editor Can Do for You<\/em><\/a>. With that in mind, what could be more fitting than this June 16, 2015 post for another Fantastic Friday?<\/p>\n

Top Ten Things About Going to a Writers’ Conference<\/h4>\n

The bags are packed and I’m ready to head out for the Cedar Falls Christian Writers’ Conference<\/a> tomorrow. Here are 10 top ten reasons to attend a writing conference, in Cedar Falls, Iowa or anywhere else one is held.<\/p>\n

10. They’re a great opportunity to celebrate the accomplishments of other writers and to see if your inner insecure writer’s envy-o-meter readings are going down or up.<\/p>\n

9.\u00a0 Writers’ conferences are a wonderful place to make new friends.<\/p>\n

8.\u00a0 And they’re a place to reconnect with old friends, too.<\/p>\n

7.\u00a0 A good writers’ conference will provide information and concepts to challenge your comfort zone, stretch your thinking, and conceive new ideas.<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0 Each conference should offer confirmation that God created you to be a writer…or not.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0 They offer time to reflect upon where you are now as a writer and where you want to be in the future.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0 They also offer time to step back and see God’s hand at work in and through your writing.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 Somehow, unexpected doors for your writing will open in unexpected ways and under the most unexpected circumstances.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 Someone else does all the cooking and cleans the bathrooms.<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 At a writers’ conference you are with like-minded people who think your obessions with reading, composition notebooks, ballpoint pens, and mechanical pencils are absolutely normal.<\/p>\n

Have you ever been to a writers’ conference? What’s on your top ten list?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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