My favorite quote from Day 2 was when we were going around the circle of our writers' group, asking what everyone was working on.

Sarah Smith:  "I am about 1000 pages into a 400-page novel!"

And so concludes Day One of the Mass(achusetts) All-Stars 2-day  Ad Hoc workshop, in which Our Gang convenes whenever someone gets a novel draft done, and "sits on it," subjecting it to intense peer scrutiny and analysis.

Today was Holly Black's stunning & scrumptious The Coldest Girl in Coldtown.  Nothing beats talking Writing with her and Sarah ( Read more... )