Building Connections After a Conference
1. Debrief with another writer after the conference. Sometimes you may feel like you’re drinking from a fire hose attending one workshop after another during an intensive conference. One way to address this problem is to debrief with another writer after the conference. I am thankful for a good friend, who suggested that we meet after my first writers’ conference. Although we didn’t have time during the live conference to meet, calling each other afterwards was very valuable. My friend was a longstanding member, and when she shared her past conference experiences with me, that helped me immensely as a…