Writing through the Pain…While on Deadline

Cynthia Herron Trials, Writing 14 Comments

As you know, here on the blog and generally as I navigate life, I love to speak positivity. It’s my happy place. The reality is, though, life isn’t always fair, kind or happy. Sometimes, there are ways we can juggle bad things or tiptoe around them. Sometimes, there’s no other way but to just plow right through the situation. As …

Writing Conferences: Catching the Vision

Cynthia Herron Writing Conferences 9 Comments

While preparing for writing conferences, it can be an exhilarating, albeit busy, time. Smaller, local conferences may be one to two-day events, while national writing conferences can number several hundreds of attendees or more and last over the course of five days to a full week. For any type of writing conference, there’s often much planning,  preparation, and schedule crunching that …