“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.” ~Terry Pratchett
Author: Hallee Bridgeman
With nearly a million sales, Hallee Bridgeman is aUSA TODAY best-selling and award-winning Christian author who writes action-packed romantic suspense focusing on realistic characters who face real-world problems. Her work has been described as everything from refreshing to heart-stopping exciting and edgy. Hallee has served as the Director of the Kentucky Christian Writers Conference, President of the Faith-Hope-Love chapter of the Romance Writers of America, is a member of the American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW), the American Christian Writers (ACW), and Novelists, Inc. (NINC). An accomplished speaker, Hallee has taught and inspired writers around the globe, from Sydney, Australia, to Dallas, Texas, to Portland, Oregon, to Washington, D.C., and all places in between. Hallee loves coffee, campy action movies, and regular date nights with her husband. Above all else, she loves God with all of her heart, soul, mind, and strength; has been redeemed by the blood of Christ; and relies on the presence of the Holy Spirit to guide her.
I am an indie author, so my deadlines and productions schedules are set years in advance, but they’re set by me. Which means that if I go through a period of conferences and more conferences and conventions followed by Type A flu, pneumonia, strep, and sinus infections that spread through my family, thus knocking me out of any definable work from mid-September to mid-November (what an autumn we had that year!), then the world is not going to collapse around me. However, that also means that I need to get out my dry erase markers and my year-at-a-glance laminated calendars and start shifting things around.
“Do not give up. The beginning is always the hardest.” ~wisdom from a fortune cookie
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work ~Harry Golden
You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page. ~Jodi Picoult
“Opportunities are usually described as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.” –Ann Landers
As Christian writers, our goal is to impact the world for Christ through our written words. That’s something Capital Christian Writers Fellowship has been passionate ….
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” –Robert Frost
“Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything really good.” ~William Faulkner
“You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.”~Jodi Picoult