Friday Five: I’m baaack!
Posted by annastan on July 26th, 2012. Filed under: Friday Five.I just got back last night from my writing retreat/Canadian vacation. I had a fantastic time at both, and I’ll be sure to recap them more thoroughly next week. For now, here are five tidbits about my trip:
1. If you put a group of introverted writers together, suddenly they become a loud, boisterous pack. I feel like all I did was laugh and talk shop for four days: it was fantastic.
2. As I predicted, I received line edits for UnFairy Book 2 right in the middle of my vacation. Luckily, I had a long wait at the airport, so I was able to get them done. Next step: copy edits. (How is this book almost done???)
3. People in Canada are amazingly friendly, to the point where I was sometimes a little creeped out. What does this say about my own friendliness level?
4. Mountains and water and castles, oh my! I took about a million pictures during my trip. I’ll be sure to post some soon!
5. It appears that everyone in Canada owns at least one dog, so as Husband Ray and I wandered around Vancouver and Victoria, he had to listen to me coo every two seconds and talk about how much I missed our own Emma Dog. Luckily, he didn’t seem to mind too much.
Have a great weekend!
July 26th, 2012 at 9:45 am
Sounds like great fun – both the writing bit and the vacationing bit! Welcome back.
July 26th, 2012 at 12:11 pm
Welcome back! Glad you got to sample some Canadian vacation time, too! It’s funny, I always hear that people, especially Americans, think we’re ‘so friendly it’s almost creepy’. It’s hilarious
(I’m proudly Canadian, btw) – and I actually DO notice when I travel outside Canada that there is a big difference as far as ‘random friendliness’ goes. Not that people aren’t lovely all over the world, but there is a definite tone of it here that is hard to find elsewhere! Looking forward to reading more about your adventures! 
July 26th, 2012 at 2:32 pm
So happy to hear that you had a fabulous vacation. I want to visit Canada! Wow, before you know it, Unfairy 2 will be in bookstores and I’ll have to put them out face out for you.
July 27th, 2012 at 8:05 am
Glad you had a great time! It’s amazing how boisterous writers are when they get together and it usually doesn’t matter how well everyone knows each other either!
July 29th, 2012 at 10:30 pm
Any trip involving castles gets an automatic thumbs up. I love being in a clog of writers – it’s always inspiring and kooky.