- Stay in touch with the child in you.
- Take your pain and turn it into something beautiful.
- Fall seven times, get up eight. (Chinese proverb)
- Winners are ordinary people who kept trying.
Monday, April 11, 2011
Post-Conference Musings
This past Saturday, my friend Bev and I attended Houston's Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) conference. As you know, I was spoiled in many ways when I lived in Pittsburgh. I attended the annual SCBWI conference in Pittsburgh every year from the time I started seriously writing until we moved -- a good seven years. The conference venue there was fifteen minutes from my home. After we moved to Louisiana in 2007, I missed my children's writer friends. There was no SCBWI chapter in Lake Charles. I had the choice of driving three hours east to New Orleans or three hours west to Houston. So, I simply didn't go. Until this year. Attending this conference was long overdue. I enjoyed myself. I met some folks. I learned lots and made those all important editor/agent contacts. Going with a friend made the trip tolerable (thanks Bev!). It was a long day, a long drive, but I believe it will be worthwhile and profitable in the long run. The first speaker of the day, author/illustrator Ruth McNally Barshaw of Ellie McDoodle fame, was both fun and fascinating. (Check out her website.) She had some great quotes, applicable to most anyone's life, not only writers.
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3 comments:
Hey, Angie, I couln't have said it better myself. I enjoyed having you as a traveling companion. I am so happy you let me know about the conference. Fun and educational. I look forward to more conferences with you.
bev
Well, hurry up and write that BWG blogpost! We need it. :) Was this in Baton Rouge, New Orleans or in Houston? Did you see Wendy, our other BWG member, there?
Jess, it was in Houston. And yes, I did see Wendy there, spoke with her briefly. I hope to write a post soon.
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