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I just got back from the NC Writer's Network Conference where I was on a panel to discuss blogging and podcasting. They invited me to do a reading. Oh, I should have said no...

Each person had 10 min. There were seven of us. Here's a sample: a story where a woman's mother's dying and she thinks the woman is an infant (taken to a ghastly conclusion), an essay about pig sex, and an excerpt from a book about women on vacation together looking back on their lives. Oh, and superheroes (guess who that one was).

Seeing this cartoon when I got home saved my sanity. Thank you.

I would welcome the Canadians as liberators!

Back in my Alton Brown Whore phase (tried every damn recipe he enthused about), I attempted his fruitcake recipe and was so pleased and surprised that I made it that year for the grandmother-in-law. Major brownie points there.

Haven't made it since - we found that good quality fruits and nuts makes fruitcake an expensive experiment that we can't guarantee will get eaten (considering many people's fear of the stuff).

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Bush/Lieberman slash. They've already kissed on TV...

*shudders*

Political slash is the kind of image that only gin will remove from your mind. And it's 11:30am... Hm.

Augh - staff too. Wonderful staff. Thank you staff for the food and the rides and the beer and the food and the copies and all the other stuff. Like the food.

Told you my brain was fried.

one of us... one of us... one of us...

I am still finding myself at a loss for words (which speaks volumes about myself as a writer, I suppose). It was worth every penny, as well as the utter travel hell I went through to get home. I recommend it to anyone who wants to get serious about writing. It's a fun time where you find your tribe, as Jim Kelly puts it, and there's much bonding to be done.

This is not a vacation where you sit around and are lauded as brilliant (or at least, I wasn't...) - and there's a distinct lack of massages (unless you find another workshopper to help you out; being married I didn't even seek this).

It's work - reading, attending lectures, critting others, and hearing your own crits with hopefully open and objective ears. Sure, the crits can sting, you're probably a robot if they don't, but this also isn't masochism camp; people are there to help you become a better writer as you help them.

Now I'm off to pick up the grammar books Teresa and Cory recommended to me...

Thanks to the instructors and my fellow students for a kick-ass time.

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