Got home from TNEO on Saturday night after several hours of wacky road trip antics with one of my Odyssey classmates from last year. My brain is still a bit too fried to be coherent or detailed, but to sum up the awesome: I got to catch up with some of my fellow '07 Odfellows (begawk!), I met lots of cool new folks from other Odyssey years, I came away with lots of good crits and ideas (and therefore now have entirely too many stories to work on), and my lecture seemed to go pretty well. I went into TNEO thinking "No way am I doing this next year" because of the massive amount of critiquing beforehand, but everyone was so awesome that now I'm all, "Well, maybe . . ."
What I will not miss from TNEO: the horribly uncomfortable chairs and sub-zero temperatures of the room where we had the lectures and short story critique sessions.
Instead of relaxing like a normal person, yesterday I immediately dove into more writing craziness with my local writing group. I hadn't been able to crit any of the stories because of TNEO, but we were having Samuel R. Delany as a guest, which I didn't want to miss. And I'm glad I didn't miss, because he was just an awesome guy.
So anyway, back to trying to get my head screwed on straight--it's been lolling off to the side all summer.
About Me
- Barbara A. Barnett
- Cherry Hill, NJ, United States
- I'm an avid rejection letter collector—or, what is more popularly known as a writer.
2 comments:
I forgot to ask you how it went last Sunday. I guess I know now. I hope you keep at it (writing) while you have forward momentum.
I got a story revised and shipped off to a market at the Bean last night, so the momentum's strong so far!
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