Who wore it best?
Who wore it best — me or this plant? This is the ICFA pool. If I’m not on the schedule (I have three things, it turns out), it’s worth looking for me in the water.
Who wore it best — me or this plant? This is the ICFA pool. If I’m not on the schedule (I have three things, it turns out), it’s worth looking for me in the water.
I was in dire need of this! Boom boom shrimp, lemon drop cosmo, had a quick swim, 85F, and now I’m sitting by the pool and talking writing with Emma Bull, Delia Sherman, Madeleine Robins, and Ellen Klages. I can feel the tension starting to drop out of my shoulders.
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We had a free day in my Advanced Fiction workshop yesterday, where we’d finished the first round of critiques and hadn’t started the second set yet; usually I’d do writing exercises on a day like that, but I ended up doing something new — taking a class to talk about creative nonfiction. So many of
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I’m behind on everything, it feels like, but I haven’t actually dropped any critical balls yet, I think? I’m honestly not sure, because it’s been so hectic the last week that I haven’t had a chance to even stop and make decent to-do lists; I’ve just been going off what clearly needed to be done
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Do you think I have ENOUGH starry stuff yet to take to SF conventions? No, no I do not, because this is a masked convention, and I only have a dark blue mask, not a starry mask. ALAS! That will be remedied. Otherwise, I think I’m pretty good. I forgot my constellation travel mug at
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Day two of the writing retreat. I feel so lucky, that I have a writer friend who can offer a serene retreat where I can put everything down for a day or two and just focus on writing in the midst of beauty. It makes a difference. Also, I got to try a Russian treat,
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I managed to squeeze out a day-and-a-half to come early to the Bay Area so I could do a writing retreat (or writing boot camp, as Alex Gurevich calls it), between the end of semester and the holidays. It was wildly productive — I drafted an entire story on the first day (with a consultation
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Jeez, the curse continues. Although I think this one may just be tiredness. Maybe travelling on 4 hours of sleep wasn’t the best idea — at age 52, I don’t bounce back nearly as fast as I used to. So what happened? Well, as I said earlier, I had a nicely productive stretch on the
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(I had a couple bites of the steak sandwich, which was only okay, but I mostly ordered that because I thought it would keep reasonably well for breakfast tomorrow.) The fries were delicious. The outdoor hotel pool (Sheraton Crown Center, Kansas City) was lovely and heated enough for lap swimming (a little cool for just
(If you wander by, feel free to come say hi – I’m very interruptible right now. I’ll wear headphones if I don’t want to be disturbed.) And yes, that’s a drink – I’m not a heavy drinker, but I have a school board meeting later this evening that I’ll be attending remotely, so I figured