Huh. The guy who was shot to death by a trooper last year is somebody I’d known since I was about 7 years old. Obviously we weren’t close, but that makes, I don’t know, eight or something people from my class who are dead. Well. He didn’t actually graduate with me because Nikiski High School opened our junior year, but. Anyhoo. Um. Oh my goodness, dinner last night was amazingly good. Ted made an apple stuffing and rolled it in pork loin and made potatoes of some sort that I…
whssht. day 3.
Today was a less useful day at the writing conference, but I still enjoyed myself, overall. I’m tired. Um. Oh, Mary Anne, I didn’t get anything signed for you because Laurie King wasn’t there today. :P Jeez. That’s about it, for today. I’m tired. :) Oh, no, there’s one other thing. :) Ted bought me the Hellboy soundtrack. *beam* Somebody loves me!
writing rondevous 2
Wow. I’m weary. It’s been a long, social-filled day, especially for somebody who doesn’t get out of the house much. It was a tremendously enjoyable day. Laurie King’s speech this morning was again entertaining, and then I spent the next three hours following Sue Henry from one room to another, which we both thought was funny by the third hour. :) I went to listen to Tom Spezialy’s film & tv Q&A, and he said, “Get an agent and send it to SciFi; they’ve been buying a lot of new…
writing rondevous 1
Went to the keynote speech for Writing Rondevous, given by Laurie King, whom I would link to if I weren’t too lazy to make sure her URL really is laurierking.com as I’m assuming it is. Despite my general temptation to write up conference stuff in agonizing detail, I don’t feel like doing that right now, so I’ll just say it was an entertaining speech about the risks (financial, emotional, etc) of being a writer. She talked some about her writing style, which happens to be very much like mine (I…
big news
The big news in my life today is that 1. I have new socks, so my feets are very happy, and 2. I’m going to the Writing Rendevous conference this weekend. Live wire, I tell ya. That’s me. A real live wire. :)