Preparing a Workshop

The workshop I'm doing for the North Texas RWA tomorrow ("Aim High, Shoot Straight: Setting and Achieving your Writing Goals") is the first workshop I ever did. I first wrote it up in 1988, and I taught it several times over the next few years. But then I retired it, and I only recently resuscitated it. I wrote up a summary and advertised it in my speaker file on my RWA chapter website.

I was delighted when the NT chapter wanted me to do it. So today I went to dig it out of the files, and discovered I no longer have it written down. So I had to recreate it from scratch, which took me most of the day. The material is familiar to me, and I could do it in my sleep. But I also had a whole bunch of inspiring quotes and hand-outs--all Missing In Action.

Well, that's okay. I think it's bigger and better than before.

Though it was pretty darn cold today, Rob and I walked to the library, the post office and Scary Jerry's (to buy bananas and dishwasher soap). First good walk I've taken in days. Later, we went out for Date Night to Chile's, and then to Lowe's where I bought a whole bunch of bird food--thistle for my sweet little finches, peanut nuggets for the bluejays, and regular seed for the cardinals, sparrows and doves. Earlier today I mixed up my own "suet"--I cut up some pork fat into tiny pieces and mixed it up with peanut butter. The woodpeckers are supposed to love it. We'll see.

Time to go to bed and read Rita books!

Have a great weekend,

Kara