Every Wednesday, YA Highway asks their readership a simple question to answer on your blog. Once you answer, you link your blog in the comments for other readers to hop on board. This is Road Trip Wednesday. Today’s topic: Describe your dream writing retreat. Where would you go? Who and what would you bring? Ah, writer’s retreat. The ability to
It’s Like a Yellow Submarine, But Not
I should probably let you all in on a not-so-secret secret: I’m anti-social. This totally contradicts the amount of time I spend on the Twitters and here, but sometimes that’s how I roll. Anyway. Listing 5 writing communities shouldn’t be too hard. Twitter. This is where I’ve made a lot of my writing connections. The #amediting and #amwriting hashtags are
Five Summer Reads, One Contest
I’ve never been so glad for Friday to come. This weekend promises to be a busy one filled with seeing friends, housework, and revisions on yet another WIP*. Summer makes me more productive, even if I feel like dying while I do it. Since we had our unofficial kickoff to summer almost two weeks ago, it’s time to think about
In a Word, Awesome
This past weekend marked the first annual Weekend of Awesome. If you lurk around here or around Kat’s, Erinn’s, or Pam and Quita’s blog you might have heard something about it*. WOA was our version of a writer’s retreat. Neat. So it was a conference?No, conference and retreat are entirely different. The purpose of a retreat is to focus on
Shiny Things
The Pie received another award*! This time KO dropped us the Blog on Fire award. It’s shiny and reddish. There’s no meme attached to it, so I’ll acknowledge it and give you a few facts about fire before this goes onto the sidebar with the other shinies. Fire Facts In the US, there are 5 classes of fires that are