"I laughed. I cried. I fell down. It changed my life."

[jazzfish]

And now at last I'm home, after a wild couple of days in Boston staying up too late with sorcyress (plus the Science! Museum), picking apples with jadelennox et al (note to self: stalk add various other apple-picking / pie-making people), hanging out with prog and cthulhia and Zarf, and generally having a fantastic time.

The whole "being home" thing hasn't sunk in. It probably will by tomorrow morning, when I have to wake up and deal with a zillion work emails and things that broke while I was gone, and then go back to patiently trying to find/make a social circle here. For now I'm still kind of floating in a headspace where the only thing I have to do is By God Keep Writing, and the only people I meet are brilliant and witty and friendly.

Eh. This week I recover, pay off my sleep debt, and gather my VP thoughts. Next week I try another writing group and get started taking apart the %&$ space story so I can rebuild it, make it stronger, faster, more likely to sell.

Comments

[blairmacg.livejournal.com]

"A REALLY AWESOME PART of VP was having other writers around..."

Completely understand! I much prefer getting feedback in person because body language tells me as much as what's being spoken. Best of all, if I was obviously writing--even if sitting in the middle of a busy room--no one interrupted me!!

I've lived in rural Indiana for ten of the last fifteen years, though. I learned early on there wasn't going to be a local writer's group for me. I once had a babysitter quit because of the kind of books on my shelves.

[jazzfish]

The in-person feedback, the talking about writing, the having company but not being interrupted while writing... yeah. All of those. I work from home these days, which is about 90% awesome and 10% lonely as all hell, and makes sitting down to write by myself (or to read critiques with less of a human element) harder. I may have to learn, though.

Re babysitter: wow. That's... something. (My sympathies.)