Okay, I have to admit it.  I’m having a blast.  There is just something special about sitting around a comfortable room with eight or nine other professional writers talking about novels, about structure, about pacing, about character, about genre, about marketing and so many other topics.  I flat love it, feel charged by it, and wish I could do it a little more often, to be honest.

This weekend here in town is one of the professional writer’s workshops Kris and I put on at times.  This one is a simple novel workshop, with New York editor John Douglas helping us out from a distance.  Eight professional novelists from all over the country are here for this weekend, including four from Canada.  A couple of the local professional writers have come by as well, and the discussions are fantastic.  Tonight the topics ranged all the way from agents to the openings of books.

I get to do this all day tomorrow as well, and I’m excited.  Great fun, great learning, great company.  A wonderful day ahead of talking about novels and the structure and writing of novels and the business of novels.  And that’s about all I’m going to say about it, except that as a beginning writer, I always had a fantasy of published novelists sitting around talking about books and craft and business and in my fantasy I was one of those published novelists.

Fantasy can become reality and does with every one of these novel workshops.  At least for me.

Now, off to do some pages on a new novel and then get to bed.  It’s midnight and I just wanted to relay some of this excitement.

Cheers,  Dean

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