Returned last night from a full-on weekend of workshops, listening to agents and having a couple of professionals comment on my work. Plus, of course, an opportunity to meet with old and several-times-met friends as well as meet those known only through their avatars on the Word Cloud - as good as a detective story in itself matching real life face to cartoon avatar and on-line name - and exchange thoughts, directions and enthusiasm, however brief, with a handful of the several hundred other delegates, while queuing, walking between rooms or eating breakfast.
'Full on' often exhausting at the time, especially for those of us who relish solitude, but having returned home and had a little time to ponder, I found myself awake at half one this morning, planning anew how to give the two novels I'd received critique on a new and better direction, using some of the lessons I'd learnt in workshops - on structure, sentences and pace - and the specific suggestions of Andrew Wille and Hal Duncan - and then maybe even think of approaching an agent.
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