Well here it is hours before the deadline to get my manuscript into the writers in residence program. I sure hope I get a spot. My good friends have been such a help. Taking a serious look at the work and providing positive feedback and constructive comments that truly have helped. I've worked at this all week. It really feels like the piece is starting to get wings. So tomorrow I will write some new sections to fill in the blanks and then off it goes. I keep my fingers crossed and hope that I get a chance to discuss this with John Lent.
Meanwhile, it doesn't really matter since the act of making the submission may be more important than the conversation that I may have with the author. So thanks for all of you Max, Leslie, Aln, and Blaine. Egg me on to keep writing. I would love to get this short piece done and perhaps find a publisher — the next big challenge.
I have received information on the Appreciative Inquiry Summit and plan to attend. It conflicts slightly with our travel plans this summer, and so I will see how to make this work. It is something that I need to do, I must do. It feels right.
It will lead me down a path I think that will help me actually get the non-fiction writing out. I have a lot to say about community engagement and fostering change within organizations. Aln and I are talking now about doing some joint writing and will look more closely at this when he gets back form Italy, lucky dog. I love that man's brain.
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