Class and Other Things

I haven't posted in a while, and it's more due to laziness then business.

We're over a month into summer vacation, and it doesn't feel like it's been that long for some reason.  Kevin's been gone to South Carolina with his dad and that side of the his family for four weeks now and will be back in another two.  I've also been in a summer class for those past four weeks.  I discovered one of my fish at the bottom of my little aquarium one day when I came home.

And I'm writing again.  It's such a glorious feeling to play with words.

The class that ended, literally today, was a summer fiction writing workshop that resulted in three new short stories, new friendships, and a renewed drive to write.  Robert Olmstead (http://www.robertolmsteadbooks.com/) was our guest author and we had an intimate class of ten students.  He introduced us to seven novellas (though we only touched on 6 of them) by Ernest Hemingway, Jim Harrison, Elise Blackwell, Margarite Duras, Lorri Moore, Don DeLillo, and Berry Hannah.

I wrote "Train Banshee," "Fish," and "A Tale of Love" while being blown away by the talent and advice of the other writers.  We were restricted to 2,000 +/- 100 words per story, which is a lot harder then I thought it would be.  I never knew how many "likes" and "hads" I used until he told us to ctrl find them.  I'm so glad I took it; it's one of those once in a life time opportunities.  Thank you Dr. McCaffrey (www.iwillnotdiet.com) for suggesting it!

Currently Pleasure Reading: "Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?" by Lorrie Moore
Currently Listening to: "Promiscuous" by Nelly Furtado, and "You Got it Bad" by Usher. Pandora mix