Living Room

[ellenkushner]

Did an "Ellen & Delia's Living Room" for the writing students at Hollins tonight:  a "come one, come all, we'll talk about writing & life" of the sort we used to do at Wiscon (and in our actual livingroom - the Wiscon thingie originated with Laurie J. Marks' undeserved comment, "I learned more about writing in Ellen & Delia's living room than in a year of classes") - we brought the Merlot & Blue Moon, they brought the cookies, and we all shared talk about process and living as writers.  I had rather suspected that all the writing grad students had no regular place to meet and hang out - and I am more and more convinced that Writers Need Community!  So encouraged them to make this a regular weekly deal, even in our absence - and I think it's going to happen!

Saving the world one graduate program (and one bottle) at a time . . . . 

Must go read more stories now, as I've got 5 to critique tomorrow, and 5 more on Friday!