ACFW IDAhope Conference | Sherrie Lord
ACFW IDAhope Conference
Feb / 01 / 2009
Spending hours and days with other moody and
eccentric artists fills you up so you can get
excited about crawling back into your lonely cave
to write.
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Not A Poser
Husband Harry is sprawled in his Lazy Boy, and Pug Walter is snuggled between me and the arm of my recliner — though the Super Bowl might already be over, in real time. We recorded it on our DVR because we spent the weekend in Boise for the American Christian Fiction Writers conference, IDA hope chapter. That’s on the other side of the state, 250 miles to the west; we were back in town but still at Papa Murphy’s Pizza Take-out at kick-off.
Besides teaching a seminar called, “Working Through Obstacles and Disappointments,” I met some talented writers. If you're a writer, and you can pull together the coin to attend a writers conference, do it. Spending hours and days with other moody and eccentric artists fills you up so you can get excited about crawling back into your lonely cave to write.
Weekend highlights:
• Seeing Robin Lee Hatcher again. She’s a peach. And she's been in the biz so long — 62 books now — I attended her seminar about organizing the paperwork that accompanies writing novels. Her best tip: Levenger Circa notebooks. I ordered mine during half-time.
• Staying with our dearest friends, T & S. At first, husband Harry and I booked a room at a local hotel, because we feared my come-and-go schedule would be disruptive — and rude. But don’t you just love friends who make no demands? We repent of ever staying anywhere else than in their company at their cozy and comfortable home. We laughed ourselves silly.
Hugs, Sherrie ;-}
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