Writer's Weekend--Day 3

Much more of a belated post than I thought this would be--but this is what I get for being up to my neck in moving! At any rate, this is the account of what happened for me at Writer's Weekend on the third day of general activities, which was Saturday the 24th. This, of course, was the day that I found out that lodestone, the former primary server of murkworks.net, had gotten hacked. So that kind of put a damper on some things for me--but only to a degree. Some pretty cool things happened during the course of this particular day, regardless!

I wanted to get up for Rebecca York's "39 Steps to Suspense" panel--but neither jesshartley nor I pulled it off. Both of us were up too late the night before--she hanging out with folks, I with editing Faerie Blood. I felt vaguely guilty for not showing up--but then, it occurred to me, it was ALL RIGHT to miss a few things. I did come in on the very tail end of the panel, though, just in time to get Ms. York's handout with 24 of the aforementioned 39 steps. I still don't know why the handout had only 24 steps--perhaps that's part of the suspense. ;) (That said, I recognized several of the pointers, and giggled at others that were new.)

( Jessica Faust: Making Sense of Rejection )

( The Fogelman Literary Agency Workshop )

( Anna Genoese: Presenting Yourself )

More tomorrow as I can, to cover the rest of Day 3 of the conference... it's getting late, and I'm tired from a long day of moving!