What a day! Yep, it was a drink from a fire hose day. It started with the teaching sessions by the students in the fifth residency. The first was about combat. Wow, so cool. The student was in the army for 10 years and then the FBI and SWAT. He explained the psychological and physiological effects combat has on a person. It was so informative. Since my own writing has lots of conflict and combat in it, I took lots of notes. The other two students talked about overcoming writer’s block (who doesn’t need that help) and designing character flaws. Again, very informative.
After lunch, I had the module on Recent trends in SciFi/Fantasy/Horror. Three hours later we got out with a stack of handouts listing markets and sites for keeping up with what is getting published. So. Much. Information.
I didn’t eat dinner and sacked out on a chair for a quick nap before heading over to the campus library for the mentor meetings. Met with Mr. Johnson to discuss my novel. Just what I needed to charge up again to work on the novel. I really should go down to the hotel lobby to be around everyone but I’m burned out and want to sleep.

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