Writers Conference

I'm exciting to be heading to Cape Girardeau. Never thought I'd see those words typed out in front of me. The annual Missouri Writers' Guild conference is taking place in Cape on April 3-5, and I have signed up. My favorite thing about events like this is being around people like me. It's like Barack Obama heading to Kenya in Dreams from My Father, only completely inconsequential. Still, I feel at home around people who write. That's why I loved grad school: I was poor and over-worked, but my colleagues all had the strange minds of writers.

The theme of the conference seems to be the business side of writing, which at times is overlooked. I've worked in an advertising agency for nearly five years, so I considered myself savvy in marketing, but I have tons to learn about the publishing industry in general. Hopefully, I'll glean some nuggets. "Collecting bullets for the gun," as one of my instructors used to say.