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September 21, 2006
Midway in Belize
Still recovering from the flight over. The Quantas flight into the US was fairly easy. I can't say the same for flights within the US. If I had known about the scary toy plane from JFK with Delta where I got yelled at by a luggage attendant, I would have gone with another airline. Next time, I will be wiser.
But this place (Blancaneaux Lodge) is magic. Doing lots of workshopping (relatively new experience for me), and not sure if I like it or if this works for me. However the other writers are wonderful, as well as the workshop leaders, and Zoetrope editors.
Yesterday, we had small break in the writing schedule and went to the Mayan ruins in Caracol--with an armed escort since there have been 'incidents'! A reading in the evening. More writing today.
I think I'm homesick but it is still early days.
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September 10, 2006
FINALIZING THE GETAWAY / PREPARING TO TRAVEL TO THE US AND CENTRAL AMERICA
I am blessed by online writing friends and our projects. Even though my days are about lists and doing all the things that I'd put under the carpet for one day, I have been buoyed by daily microfic writing schedule... well, maybe I miss a day here and there.
Void has up my Protein For Brains.
And great news: The story Rockpools from Southword has been selected for Best Australian Stories 2006. Wonderful!
If you live in New York mark this date, Sunday, September 24th, 7 pm, in red for my reading in New York:
Sunday, September 24th, 7 pm: Mad Hatters' Review will be ABC No Rio's featured literary journal. The grant-funded reading, hosted by poet Bruce Weber, will feature Carol Novack, associate editor Elizabeth Smith, and Issue 4 contributor Girija Tropp. The Lower East Side venue is at 156 Rivington Street.
I am flying out this coming Thusday in the most convoluted fashion. Looking at my schedule, one might be forgiven for thinking that it is part of a grand plan to stay in the air as long as possible.
I had my girlfriend Rita come and help me pack. If she said the word 'Hot' it went in the suitcase. Today, I'll have to cull (except for anything that's really HOT).
Itineary: Melbourne - Auckland - Los Angeles. One days break. Los Angeles - New York. Arrive late in the evening with the intention of a sultry date with JFK airport (why else would anyone say all those terrible things about that airport?). After a 6 hr layover, New York - Belize where I'll be spending a week at the Zoetrope Workshop run by Robert Olen Butler and David Bezmoggis (author of Natasha and other stories) and the editor of the magazine.
A week later, I'll fly to New York and land in Carol Novack's place early in the morning, like 1 or 2 am... good thing she lives up late. That evening, we will be at the ABC No Rio where I will endeavour to be coherently Australian.
These last few weeks have been about lists. Reading material for the first leg of my flight:The New Yorker, Wired, Poets and Writers, Gish Jen's Love Wife.
MORE: Stuff I think is cool: This artist Alison Elizabeth Taylor
Note: Comments have been disabled for the two months I will be away from home.
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