Retreat, Retreat!

/ January 4, 2012/ Alicia's fantasy world, Road Trip Wednesday, weekend of awesome/ 5 comments

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

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It’s Like a Yellow Submarine, But Not

/ July 15, 2011/ blatant highlander reference, community, Friday Fives, nanowrimo, weekend of awesome, writing/ 3 comments

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

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In a Word, Awesome

/ June 6, 2011/ awesomeness, Four For Friday, friends, lists, weekend of awesome/ 7 comments

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

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Shiny Things

/ May 9, 2011/ award, weekend of awesome/ 7 comments

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

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