When Your Writing Conference Doesn�t Go the Way You Planned
by Lynn Blackburn @LynnHBlackburn I love writing conferences. I love attending them, and I love teaching at them. No two events are exactly the same. Even the same conference will have a different feel from one year to the next. Some years, I look back and see them as crucial networking years. Some years they are fun. Some years are educational and informative. All are important in their own way. The one constant? None of them are ever quite what I was expecting. Take my most recent conference experience. I was on faculty at the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference in May. I taught a lot of classes so I spent most of my time either in my classroom or in my room working (deadlines don�t care whether you�re teaching at a conference or not). When I was out �in the wild� I found that I kept running into the same small group of lovely people. I made some new friends and solidified some previous relationships that I�m so thankful for. But there were other ...