{"id":8664,"date":"2025-08-18T11:10:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T18:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/?p=8664"},"modified":"2025-08-18T11:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T18:10:07","slug":"you-dont-have-to-go-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/18\/you-dont-have-to-go-home\/","title":{"rendered":"you don’t have to go home …"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Worldconners<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Worldcon is over, and people are now returning to their lives. I’ve got a day and a half here to enjoy Seattle, but the funny thing is, right now I’m in the same hotel bar where the above die-hards were closing out Worldcon last night – it’s got a great high-top table at the window, which is great for writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Which I need to do, after reading more of Dwight Swain’s Techniques of the Selling Writer<\/a> over breakfast. You’d think I’d have finished this book given that I lecture on Swain, but I got introduced to him through his audio lectures, so the lead up to my Worldcon talk was my first time to go through this book cover to cover, and even then I focused on the scene-and-sequel stuff that I was discussing. His discussion of openings – focusing on where, what’s going on, and to whom, with what conflict, expressed with showing through immediate action – got my brain thinking about how to rework the opening of WATCHTOWER OF DESTINY. My room’s being cleaned, so I decided to sit down and write my notes on these ideas right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Breakfast<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Even though I’m a night owl, sometimes it’s good to start the day with food for body and mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It can inspire you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-the Centaur<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pictured: The Fountain bar last night, the Fountain bar this morning, and yet another breakfast at Alder and Ash – smoked salmon omelet, dry toast and fresh fruit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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