I am going to Norman, Oklahoma to a writer’s conference at the end of April. I am curious to see what a writer’s conference is like. I had hoped to go to one last year at Ball University last year, but it didn’t work out.
The writers group I belong to just got back from a retreat at the Elms Hotel in Excelsior Springs, Missouri. We wrote a lot and ate too much junk food. The meeting room we worked from had windows along the entire wall that looked out over the grounds. It snowed most of the day, making it the perfect day to sit indoors and tap away on the laptop. It helped that the bottom floor of the hotel has a heated mineral spring water lap pool and a full service spa!
I am back in the shoeing season groove. I left the bookstore because my supervisor was a bully and I just didn’t want to be that miserable everyday. It did pay the heat bills this winter. It also paid for a new fridge, carpeting in the living room, two new recliner chairs and a big repair bill on the Subaru. Everyday at that job was like being in the movie Gaslight. Life is too short.
The past month was spent getting caught up on my novel writing. The location and setting within the novel have been tightened. That also meant I had to change some characters around. The ones I don’t need can be used in another novel.
