Online courses, YouTube videos, local writing groups, a college Creative Writing course, even an MFA are all worthy investments with great payoffs. But there is one investment that can’t be beat: A writer’s conference.
I hold a bachelor’s degree in nursing. You might wonder what that has to do with writing. Well, not much. All I can say is that the 20 years I spent in nursing gave me plenty of fodder for stories. That’s why when I started my writing career I felt intimidated. I expected my writing…
As writers, we always look for ways to improve our writing and writing business. We never want to rest on what we’ve always done. We want to continue to dream and grow and build as writers and as writing entrepreneurs. This became even clearer to me during a road trip a few years ago. In…
Gena and I took a lot away from High Performance Academy with Brendon Burchard this past week—an unforgettable 4 days designed to impact your personal life and your business from all sides. The thing about attending a motivational conference is that it’s EASY to get excited and go back to “the way things were.” But…
We just returned to home after a highly energetic and motivating 4 days at High Performance Academy with Brendon Burchard. Attending a conference on personal productivity like this is inspiring, moving and—more than anything—it lets you see that you are not alone in this space. Two thousand people came together for HPA2019 from 30 countries…
I pulled onto the Turner Turnpike and merged with traffic heading from Oklahoma City to Tulsa. Beside me, Cheri Fuller writhed in guilt. “I shouldn’t be going! Melanie, why are we going to this conference? What good will it do us?” Those were valid questions, but I didn’t pretend to have the answers. I’d never…
Whether you’re an accomplished writer or new to the writing world, if you’re considering attending a writing conference, it’s probably because you want to learn. You review the schedule, and see a variety of interesting topics to be presented by interesting speakers. You see places where you can sign up to pitch a project or…
Why are we passionate about writer’s conferences? At my first writer’s conference at University of Oklahoma, I met Kathryn Fanning. A few months later I attended her freelance writing class at the library. That led to being in her critique group, and the first thing Kathryn taught was to write what you know, which for me was: children,…