Pictures to come soon!
I just wanted to update you guys and say that RWA has officially started it’s 2009 conference! I am currently at the Marriott Wardman with 20,000 other romance writers that are pouring in by the hour.
Recap: Today, my critique partner Deanna and I reached the hotel around 3:30. In the masses, we managed to check in, head up to our room, and unpack. Deanna brought sooooo much soda and stuff as well as other drinks of the alcohol variety. We toasted with a rum and coke. (Mom, I’m 24 years old. Do not get angry because I had one rum and coke. I’m perfectly legal! And my critique partner is a few years younger than you. Don’t judge!)
I felt like a college kid because we took our plastic cups with our drinks down to the main floor and explored the HUGE hotel. We then had dinner at Harry’s Pub and then headed back to the room where we packed up our laptops and sat in the lobby to do some writing. When my laptop battery died, we went back to the room where we have been ever since. I have done some major plotting and I feel like we are already accomplishing stuff!
Tomorrow: registration, breakfast with author Susan Lyons, trip to downtown D.C., literacy signing, and first timer’s workshop. After which, maybe dinner with a bunch of great friends!
Keep a look out on my twitter for more updates and news as I go! I promise, pictures will be coming soon.
Yeay, RWA09!
Hi Nisha who I will meet for b-fast on Thurs,
Great to read what’s going on and sigh that because I live local, I’m not arriving until tomorrow – but in the AM!
Laurel