Got email last night saying I’d been accepted into Patrick & Teresa Nielson Hayden’s Viable Paradise workshop at Martha’s Vineyard at the end of September. Week-long writer’s workshop. Squee!
In other writing news, I broke 150K words for the year and 12K on the novel I’m working on now. Chugga chugga chugga.
Congratulations!
Martha’s Vineyard is beautiful in the autumn. (At least it was when I was there in the early 90s *grin*)
Congratulations! Where is Martha’s Vineyard?
You’re too awesome! Martha’s Vineyard is very nifty; I don’t think everything will be closed down by the end of September, but I’m not sure. August-September is Storm Season, and the island is quite seasonal. :P
Martha’s Vineyard is a lovely island off the south coast of Massachusetts. Y’know how Cape Cod forms sorta an arm off the eastern side of MA? Kinda like a muscle-man with his forearm parallel to the ground and his fist bunched up? MV is just south of where his elbow is, and Nantucket (of the infamous limerick) is just east of it. If you go to and search for a place, Martha’s Vineyard, it’ll give a good map (that includes the ferry routes to MV and Nantucket). A lot of celebrities — actors and political figures, mostly — have summer houses there.
Amusing anecdote: My friend who lived on Martha’s Vineyard for several years (and counts as an Islander, slang for the permanent residents) was heading out of a store one day when a very attractive woman was trying to enter, up stairs, with a stroller. My friend stopped and helped with the stroller, then went on her way. When she realized, after a little bit, that she’d just helped Michelle Pfeiffer get her baby carriage into the store, she apparently just shrugged and went on her way. I guess after you’ve taken the President’s daughter (Chelsea Clinton) and her Secret Service agents on a trail ride, not much is going to phase you. :) (BTW, horseback riding is apparently not a part of standard agents training.)
Martha’s Vineyard is also the location of the infamous bridge that a Kennedy drove off in the 60s(?), resulting in the drowning death of his female passenger.
If you do go, be sure to go by Chilmark Chocolate! It’s very good chocolate!
That Teddy. He’s such a kicker.
i haven’t been on martha’s vinyard for at least 15 years, but my folks live on cape cod, and the autumn is still pretty substantially touristy. (although it’s mostly weekend tourists instead of week-long visitors).
it’s really quite nice over there.