The Most Important Thing to Take to a Writers Conference

There’s a long list of all the supplies, proposals, and papers to bring with you to a writers conference. With American Christian Fiction Writers’ conference just around the corner, lots of writers are heading to meet agents and editors. The demand is high to nail your pitch and write the proposal of the century. But one thing you may not be thinking of is your promises from the year before. Did you tell a faculty member or an agent you’d work on a specific goal at your last conference? Well guess what? They remember these things. My search in the Bible produced Paul’s statement in Corinthians:

II Cor. 8:10-11 And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago. Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a perfomance also out of that which ye have.

So have you started a new manuscript, worked on your social media, or promised to improve your self-editing skills then fallen prey to doubts or busyness of life? I’m guilty of it myself. When I wrote my first post this week, I looked back at the one I’d created before. Guess what? The last one was written a year ago to the day. Oops.

Let me encourage you to get back to work. There’s only about five weeks until the ACFW Conference. Return to the previous year’s goals so you’re ready when you get to the conference to say, “This is what I’ve done…”

The most important thing you’ll bring with you is tangible progress.

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