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The One Where I Get a Dragon…

Hello Fancy!

I've been home for a whole week... sigh. It's nice, even though all the usual home things (greasy stove, dishes in the sink, laundry everywhere!) were here to greet me. My kiddos were also here, and my husband, and Charlie Taco, so even though I was tired and the house needed work, it still felt like coming home.

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Hello Fancy!

For the second week in a row, I'm writing to you from an airport. This time, I'm in Bozeman, Montana, where I've spent the week with my tribe, doing creative thinking and "filling my well." It was work, but it was fun work, and while I'm exhausted, it's that kind of energized exhaustion that comes from spending time doing something you really love. For me, that's being with other writers, talking about everything from craft to strategy to what really makes us tick and what our process looks like. And the cool thing is that no matter how many productivity books and methods out there tell you that THIS is the right way or THAT is just plain wrong -- there IS no one way. And it's fascinating to learn how many different ways there are to create.

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