The problem with LiveJournal is that it's not Twitter, and Twitter is my current favorite toy. It's a pain to write in complete sentences, and Twitter doesn't demand that so much.

Anyway.

I spent last week up in the high, dry air of Flagstaff, Arizona, where I attended Starry Heaven, a novel writing workshop modeled after ccfinlay's Blue Heaven. Flagstaff has been one of my favorite getaways for years, and I enjoyed hanging out at some of my old haunts with eleven other writers. I figured we'd be using Beaver Street Brewery as our beer away from home, and even though we did end up there a few times, the watering hole of choice turned out to be the balcony of the Zane Grey Ballroom in the Weatherford Hotel, where we had a nice view of downtown Flagstaff and a solid selection of beer and bites.

The workshop portion of the week was great, too. I learned a lot about some of my deficiencies in plotting and character, and when I turn back to the novel-in-progress I brought, it'll be with an eye toward being less deficient, or possibly being deficient in new and exciting ways. In any case, it was a smart bunch with a lot of useful things to offer.

I didn't take many photos, but others did, and I shall link to them for your gawkage:

Mine:

Starry Heaven

Sarah Kelly's

Bill Shunn's

Jon Hansen's

ETA: Eugene Myers' pics