Writercon

[katestamps]

So...is anyone going to Writercon?  I want to go and I promised myself when I spent the whole time bummed last time (2006!) that I would find a way this time, but now that it is TIME, I find myself waffling.

Tell me you're going.  Tell me you're not going but you wish you were. Tell me I'd be better off buying a netbook for less money and staying

Comments

[avidbeader]

I don't really have any favorite sources for writing advice. I have a copy of Stephen King's "On Writing" and one of these days I'll actually read the whole thing and not just snippets. I also don't use any exercises; I just get ideas for openers or scenes and start writing and see where it takes me.

One thing that I find astoundingly helpful for some strange reason is in the first-editing stage. I will read what I've written in a different font (both size and style) and it almost always makes me see errors or things I want to word differently. Like when I've posted something to my LJ, I re-read and always see something I want to change.

I've done the writing workshop thing a couple of times over the years, and neither time was particularly helpful. In one the published-author leader's ego took over the whole proceeding and in the other a couple of the participants hogged all the attention and some of us never got to present anything. The most progress I've made lately is with a group of fellow writers who can both cheerlead and make good suggestions...my most recent H/Hr story got finished thanks to them.