Tallgrass Writing Workshop

I spent the weekend in Emporia at the Tallgrass Writing Workshop. As usual it was inspiring and wonderful.

I left with two realizations:
1. I absolutely must write the story I most do not want to write. I’ve been avoiding it for decades. It is time. It will be messy and awful. But then it will be done.
2. I do not write fiction the way most people do. And I need to stop trying to do it the “right” way and do it the way I do it. Doing it my way I can knock out a decent chapter every day – not that it doesn’t need some revising, but it’s decent. Doing it the “right” way means I fritter away a lot of time on things that aren’t actually writing or rewriting..