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I haven’t talked about this here because, frankly, I didn’t know how far it would go. In fact, I’m still not sure how far it will, although it seems to be taking me in a rather desirable direction.

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And it’s right next to my house (almost)!

Last Thursday I attended my first ever writer’s group meeting. I had been looking for one for a while, figuring that to be the next logical step towards developing a career as a fiction writer (short stories, novels, and maybe even movie scripts, if I ever get to be as popular as, say, Neil Gaiman). I’ve done more than enough writing alone, and it’s about time I shared some of my stuff with others. Of course, I intended to do this in a manner which would allow me to sell some of the works to print publications. (Those I don’t sell will, of course, make their way to the Web, either here or somewhere else.)

The writing group was… not at all what I expected. Where I had though I’d find a well structured, classroom-like environment I instead found a group of people gathered around a table in a coffee house, talking about writing related stuff.

I loved it.

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I was listening today to Mur Lafferty’s podcast, I Should Be Writing when she suddenly started talking about an idea she had using the words “Instant Cowboy”. Talking about how it probably means that putting on a hat or some boots would make you an instant cowboy, she instead suggested that another way to have this would be to “just add water.” How do you pull off something like that?

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