Mass All-Stars

 And so concludes Day One of the Mass(achusetts) All-Stars 2-day  Ad Hoc workshop, in which Our Gang convenes whenever someone gets a novel draft done, and "sits on it," subjecting it to intense peer scrutiny and analysis.  

Today was Holly Black's stunning & scrumptious The Coldest Girl in Coldtown.  Nothing beats talking Writing with her and Sarah Smith, Kelly Link, Cassie Clare, Josh Lewis & Delia.

In striving to express myself, I came up with two pretty useful lines which I will probably use again:

The Arc of Reader Desire
and
"Sometimes Cool Shit trumps Narrative Tension." 

Whether they were useful to anyone else remains to be seen!