WOTD: Workshop

  • Apr. 15th, 2008 at 11:48 AM
Cover Art, Blah, Penguin Author, zim, fishbone, I Make Stuff Up
Today's word of the day is: Workshop

I'm back from Nashua, where the New England SCBWI conference was a huge success and my four-hour workshop on web design and blogging was well-attended and well-received. The grand finale was a live update of my website to include news about the presentation itself, thanks to a kind volunteer photographer in the audience.

That's my new website design in the background, and see how exhausted I looked by that point? Since I was presenting for both sessions on Sunday, I didn't get to attend the equally well-received workshops going on at the same time:
  • Toni Buzzeo on self-promotion;
  • Brian Lies and Lita Judge on illustration;
  • Sarah Aronson on point of view;
  • Harold Underdown on an overview of the basics;
  • Debra Garfinkle on humor writing;
  • Emily Herman and Anne Sibley O'Brien on writing tools;
  • Sarah Shumway on pitches; or
  • The Write Sisters (Janet Buell, Kathy Deady, Muriel Dubois, Diane Mayr, Andrea Murphy, Barbara Turner, and Sally Wilkins) on critique groups and collaboration
In fact, with all of those other workshops going on, I was amazed that anyone wanted to come to mine at all. We really did have a great group of authors and illustrators who peppered me with enough questions to last the entire time--and we probably could have gone for another four hours if I hadn't lost my voice by then. Thanks, everybody!