Day two of the con opened with snoring in triplicate. So I was up early and out of the room. I caught up with my fellow writing workshop group mates and my email. Speaking of which I know I am not suppose to really enumerate my rejections but I got one today that was very personalized and made the rest of the day pass in a rosy glow. Also it has me planning my next short story so I can submit again very soon.
Harry Turtledove and M. J. Engh were the authors who critiqued my story and while I was very excited to hear all the good things they had to say about my submission, I was even more grateful to hear the criticisms they had on punctuation, word choice, and dialogue tags. These were the kinds of things I was hoping for. They won’t help me with just this story, they will help me with all of my writing.
The rest of the day was spent in and out of panels dealing in Space and Time for Writers, Arguing about Punctuation, and Writers of the Future. The Writers of the Future panel was given by James Glass, a former winner of the contest. He gave us the six day workshop the winners get in miniature. He had some very relevant things to say to where I am currently at in my writing career and reinforced some things I had heard a few but not many other authors address before.
I’m having fun here. Hope you are having fun where you are.
