Why is it cold in April (in Dayton, Ohio) ?
The next time someone says to me, “Have you checked to see what the weather will be like in (the place I’m going for a couple days),” my response will be, “Why no, I haven’t. I’ll do that right now.” Unfortunately that won’t do me any good on this trip. My little weather program (Meteorologist) says it is 36 degrees outside but I don’t believe it. I saw people with coats and gloves walking around when I parked in the garage a block away from my hotel and it sure felt colder than 36. Oh well, I’ll have a nice brisk walk in my windbreaker tomorrow morning when I head over to the writer’s workshop.
Speaking of which, you may ask yourself, why is Mike in Dayton, Ohio? Well, I drove up here from Knoxville to attend a writer’s workshop tomorrow. Why did I drive five hours (ok, a little over four, but don’t tell the state troopers in Kentucky and Ohio that) for a writer’s workshop? A couple reasons, actually. I felt like getting away from everything for a couple of days and John Scalzi is the instructor for the fiction session. I read and loved his sci-fi novel Old Man’s War and I just finished his book on writing, You’re Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi on Writing. I’ll have more to say about both books in later posts, but in a nutshell I found Coffee Shop to be one of the most practical books on writing (or rather, on being a writer) that I’ve ever read. I also like Scalzi’s blog (you should see it linked over there to the right) so I figured why not drive up to hear him speak?
Just wish I’d brought a coat…
