Saturday post mortem

I don't know about everyone else but I really enjoyed our rather ad hoc get together on Saturday. We managed to talk about writing quite a lot, and that's a good thing for me, when amongst 'normal' people such a discussion is usually greeted with horror and alarm. I rarely encounter a love for writing amongst friends, and it's all I can do to eke an intermittent email out of them, so to sit about discussing writing, writing courses, writing preferences etc was a big pleasure. I also enjoyed putting faces to names for the first time, and was sorry that Skye was unable to make it, a victim of last week's flooding, unfortunately for her. I also always enjoy Caf(f?)e Tempo, the food, the ambiance, the 24 hour alcohol, the Manager (a charming sheila, the sort of woman you long to meet when amongst the more straight-laced Europeans and North Americans). Viva l'Australienne!! We're hoping to meet up again at some point, probably on a Monday due to Saturday problems for some of us. If you know of other writers who might like to come along.. invite them in. I will now be embarking on Advanced Fiction Writing II at Gotham in NY, after the very successful and interesting Fiction Writing I which I've all but finished, and then I'm planning to do a small subject called Unlocking Creativity at the Writers Studio in Sydney. The Writers Studio requires this subject to be completed as a pre-requisite for all of its other writing subjects, so by then I'll be good and ready for a bit of the vernacular after months of replacing 'lift' with 'elevator' etc. Ciao, ciao, Barbara