Write On

Wow. I got back into my short stories and it is just flowing. I went over a finished story and to my surprise there were few to no corrections to be made, grammar wise or in sentence structure. And this story had been sitting for a few months.

Meaning? I am past the terrible twos, as those on “A Way with Words” have described, where you are just spastic in all your writing.

I guess that unless you are an outright English major your brain must relive all those traumatic classes in grammar, those sentence diagrams and burning eyed English teachers that made one’s life so miserable in grade school and high school.

Now that my brain has sorted it all out, things look all the more brighter.

I had set a preliminary target this year of going to the “Killer Nashville” writer’s conference. Circumstance did not allow me to arrange the trip but my determination is set, the resources available and the prospect of having piles of work complete for next year have all looking good.

I have mentioned this goal before; attending a writer’s conference. It is an opportunity to learn, to strategize, to network and possible snag an agent or publisher. I have realized a goodly amount of completed work will allow one to make the most out of such conferences, so I am not beating myself up too bad that I could not swing it this year.

Muncie Indiana, Louisville, Nashville, New York and Las Vegas are all cities holding events that may interest me next year. The nearer, centrally located conferences hold the greatest draw as they will give me a chance to visit my older brother.

Thank you for reading. Sorry for the lateness of my post. The garden, and the benefits the recent heat provided to it, kept me occupied. I am getting a bumper load of eggplant right now and just realized that the picture on my seed package and the actual eggplant in hand are not of the same variety.

The trials and tribulations of life.