Continuing on with the week-end report...
A Rally of Writers!
The local community college here has a powerhouse writing program, and for the last 16 years they have put on a one-day writing conference. This was my second year to attend, and it was sparkalicious.

The first session I attended was Treasure Your Obsessions: How and why writers must continue to nourish their imaginations, presented by Bonnie Jo Campbell. Bonnie is a Michigan writer who has published a book of short stories and just published her first novel, Q Road. She was the perfect first session...her segment was about the obsessiveness of writing and the use of other obsessions to fuel writing, to provide short story ideas, and to give our characters depth.

I decided to list some of my obsessions: (in no particular order)
lilacs...work...Ron...railroads...Glacier National Park
J.R....lighthouses...Montana...scrapbooking...confetti...sex
Kevin Costner...Eminem...Lansing...Go Green, MSU
cemeteries...HVAC...CP...photography...barns...C.S.Lewis
Ernest Hemingway...Ansel Adams...Teddy Roosevelt...Jim Harrison
Survivor...native Americans...lady bugs

Yours?