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  • Not my hero, Or Wait….

    I had a suggestion as a member of the Lakefly Writers Conference. Jess Riley. I think I even contacted her via Facebook. I don’t think we have even met and she was not one of my main authors I read. I never tried to emulate her. However, she lives in Oshkosh, so I ran across…

  • Word of Mouth

    Dan Andersen talks about how inviting lakefly Writing Conference in Oshkosh is- for all levels of writers, but especially new ones. At sixty bucks, it is a low stress conference to experience. Isolation and a lack of direction. That’s how I feel when I haven’t interacted with fellow creators. That’s not a good feeling. A…

  • Meeting My Heroes One Conference at a Time

    Meeting My Heroes One Conference at a Time

    At the Lakefly Writers Conference, I have met writers that I really respect and many that I came to respect by meeting them. The first year of Lakefly, we had Michael Perry and the Long Beds perform at the Grand. If you don’t have them, go get their CDs and sneezingcow.com. I helped them unload…

  • I am a Lakefly

    I am a Lakefly

    I am a writer. So you know what that means. Exactly. Socially awkward as hell. I am a better communicator as a writer than as a speaker. This is especially poignant as you are reading this and this aint that good either. Writers conferences are sometimes put on by writers. A crazy thought, but stick…

  • Lakefly 1st Timer

    I found this blog about the Lakefly Writers Conference last year. There is so much pressure to attend a conference. You have to network and learn and conversate and find the darn rooms. We hope that we make the Lakefly as comfortable as possible. I’m not here… I am driving. To Wisconsin. I am attending…