What to Do When You’re Not at the RWA Conference (Otherwise titled: how to pass the time while your friends are off being cooler than you)
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
I know Terri gave a bunch of places to hang out online if you couldn’t make it to Conference. I’m not that helpful, so I figured I could just put out some suggestions for stuff you can do while you wait by the computer (phone/email/etc) to hear from your friends who are there, currently too busy having fun to pay attention to you (er… me, um, er… us).
1) Read – probably on the top of most of our what-to-do-when-killing-time lists. Lots of great stuff is coming out this week/weekend. Besides the one on Sin’s and my minds (*cough* Breaking Dawn *cough*), Before the Scandal by Suzanne Enoch and Some Like it Wicked by Teresa Medeiros are both out this week. There have been some wonderful summer releases as well. I’m looking forward to Colleen Gleason’s fourth vampire book, out on the 5th. Reading good books can get your brain into writing mode.
2) Movies – movies are great for revving up the old creative juices. As Hellion is always saying, there are no new stories, so watching stories on the big screen can get your own story moving. The most recent Mummy movie and Swing Vote both come out on Friday night, so that’s something. I want to see Dark Knight still, so maybe I’ll have the DH take me there.
3) Dinner (well, more specifically dessert) – check out a favorite restaurant, try a new one, or just order take out. A little special occasion eating always puts me in the mood for diving into my WIP (especially if there is chocolate involved).
4) Writing – (Last but not least) as you probably noticed, all my other choices had something to do with writing. But, seriously, what better way to make our conference going friends jealous than to have written scores of words while they were off gallivanting, sipping champagne with Nora. Hey, it could happen, they could be jealous….
So tell me, what are you going to be up to this weekend? Writing, reading, eating? Any other suggestions to kill the time during conference? Any other suggestions of activities that get your creative juices going?