A Midwest Experience

Come one, come all! Storymakers Midwest is calling!

Storymakers is a one day event of fabulous writers and amazing information gifting to the brains of all us anxious conference attendees.

We hover like bees on a summer day ready go class to class, gathering all the info we can till our brains are so heavy with information we can hardly move. Then we set it all down in our lovely notebooks and take to the sky!

The best part is not a one of the other attendees will sting you!

It's either that or the networking with authors who have been throw the same wringer we're currently running ourselves through. Or the class options that seem to fit every level of writer and energize you to set off into that great honeycomb of book theories in your head, finally able to make sense of the glory that awaits the potential of that one special idea.

I think i need to get outside.

Perhaps at Storymakers!

This was most of the group last year! I really can't say enough about how great these authors are!

Details -

Date: Saturday, September 21st, 2013

Time: 8 am – 9 pm

Location: Holiday Inn in Overland Park, KS

So excited! The conference is only $105 dollars and my return was definitely worth the value! 

It's kinda like EFY for writers and only a day long, so, you get to go home and see your favorite cheerleaders sooner than later!

I say story, you say makers!

Story!

(makers)

Story!

(makers)

Yay! Rah, rah, sis boom bah!

OK now I'm just slipping into a sad little glory days moment only I never was a cheerleader. 

It's my Uncle Rico moment.

Oh and so you know, here's a link to the classes, and one for the registration and speaker's list as well!

Is the first time really the best?

Just got back from my very first writers conference. It was the Ozark Creative Writers Convention, and it was awesome!

I'm gonna be honest though, I'm not really feeling more motivated to write. Ooo, I hope nobody's offended. Don't tell Tamara! Blast! She's gonna find out anyway. Dang internet. No worries Tamara, and all new authors looking for an opportunity to share the writing love, motivation comes in many forms! This just wasn't the way I expected it!

Tamara is my wonderful friend that I attended the conference with. Go check out her post it's full of fun info about the conference and the agent who was there. She's been helping me remember how much I love writing, but I really am just starting out in this crazy amazing world of writing, so, trying to take in all that information was a little overwhelming. I'd come out of each class with pages of notes and realize how much more there is to writing than a good idea.

That happened after every class I think :) It makes me giggle a little how exhausting sitting in class is and how awesome all of the speakers were.

Thank goodness they left a little break time each day that we happily filled with shopping and chocolate, along with a little of our own writing, to temper the information overload!

We've established that I'm a new author. As long as you aren't counting the little construction paper covered book I wrote about a haunted castle when I was in first grade. (don't smirk you've all got one!) I'm still working on the first draft, of my first novel, but who'd of thought jumping into a room full of people who share my interests could be so scary! Writing can be hard and these people have been beating there way through for years.

The conference itself was a very cool experience, and I plan to go to this one and others in the future. The classes were great, the people were awesome. In fact, I never got to have a one-on-one conversation with Dusty Richards, who heads the committee, but I feel like he's my friend. To bad he has no idea!

So I wouldn't say I came out of the conference super motivated to write. However, I am super motivated to learn and I'm sure I'll keep writing as I go! Also, I'm really looking forward to next year! Whew!

In any case, first whirlwind, fabulous convention finished. Check!