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NESCBWI--Saturday (first half)
I have a novel draft due next week. So my compromise about this conference was to come, but spend the majority of the workshop time in my room writing. So I'm sorry that I don't have any insightful conference notes to share with anyone. However,
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kmessner and bostonerin
both posted some great highlights.
On Saturday, I had breakfast with Jacqueline Davies and Nancy Werlin then went back to my room to work. I'm a very visual person, and I long to see the whole novel sometimes. Before I had left home, I printed the book in 7pt. so it would be small enough that I could lay it out on the floor and mark the day changes, when various elements come in, where the plot points fall (and I discovered they are too far apart), etc.
At one point, the hotel staff offered to come in and change the towels, and I said, "Uh, no thanks," because my room looked like this:
It was a good working day. I need those long hours of uninterrupted thinking time to solve overall story problems, instead of simply throwing words around on the pages. But since I had paid for Saturday, I came downstairs for lunch.
