Thursday, August 09, 2007

Conference

The Mississippi Writer's Guild conference was August 3-4 in Raymond, Miss. I wish you all could have been there. I learned some, made some new friends, and the contact buzz I got from writiness of it was awesome.



Novelist Joshilyn Jackson and me, at Pentimento Books in Clinton, Miss.

Joshilyn gave a rousing and funny opening address that was inspiring and motivating (the jist of which was: Write, then write some more. Write what you like. Write what you love. Then? Write some more!). She also led two workshops, which I took. One was about great opening lines and what makes them great. It was very informative.

I am working on (deep breath) a novel. A mystery. I feel altogether uncertain and downright squeamish about how I don't know what I'm doing. But we've been plotting and now it's time to write.

What are you working on?