Comments on: McBride’s http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/mcbrides/ Raise a glass to the lost arts of reading, writing, and drinking. Tue, 21 May 2013 10:30:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Tommy http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/mcbrides/comment-page-1/#comment-1390 Tommy Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:28:40 +0000 http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/?p=814#comment-1390 Sounds like paradise! Everyone has a story to tell if you'll stop long enough to listen for it... Sounds like paradise! Everyone has a story to tell if you’ll stop long enough to listen for it…

]]> By: SunRose http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/mcbrides/comment-page-1/#comment-1076 SunRose Thu, 15 Jul 2010 04:47:39 +0000 http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/?p=814#comment-1076 Homer is a great place, but everything is better across the bay. The food tastes better. The flowers smell sweeter. My kids don't even fight when we're over there. I'm glad you got to experience a little of the good life on the south side of Kachemak Bay. Homer is a great place, but everything is better across the bay. The food tastes better. The flowers smell sweeter. My kids don’t even fight when we’re over there. I’m glad you got to experience a little of the good life on the south side of Kachemak Bay.

]]> By: Dori http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/mcbrides/comment-page-1/#comment-1031 Dori Tue, 13 Jul 2010 02:01:23 +0000 http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/?p=814#comment-1031 Oh my - it sounds wonderful... I would have liked to have been there! Looking forward to your conversation about what makes a writers' conference good... Thanks!, Dori Oh my – it sounds wonderful… I would have liked to have been there!

Looking forward to your conversation about what makes a writers’ conference good…

Thanks!,

Dori

]]> By: John Jack http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/mcbrides/comment-page-1/#comment-1008 John Jack Sun, 11 Jul 2010 07:13:20 +0000 http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/?p=814#comment-1008 I'm a writing conference window shopper. Even travel expenses a few hours away I can't afford. I'm lucky to pay down ten bucks a week on a mountain of education and medical debts. They wrote this platitude about me: I can't even afford to pay attenton. But since paying attention is actually free, it's about all I do besides writing and daily living activities. Paying attention is about the only all-expenses-prepaid vacations I take. I've considered organizing one hereabouts where the destination is so attractive just being there would be worth the low conference cost and whatever travel expenses, primitive accommodations, room and board of about thirty bucks a day. But it would be at the edge of the known universe travel-wise. If Moses cant' go to the mountain, bring the mountain to Moses. I'm comtemplating trying starting a free, small, private online writing conference that would suit my circumstances. Private writing excerpt circulation and commentary, writing topic seminars, writing struggle colloquy give and take. Sure, there's already a plentitude of online writing venues. I want to taylor one to my needs so all the routine, digressive roughhousing crap doesn't harsh my mellow. I've discussed it with writers having similar needs. No takers yet. Just naysayers. Where there's a wll there's a way. I’m a writing conference window shopper. Even travel expenses a few hours away I can’t afford. I’m lucky to pay down ten bucks a week on a mountain of education and medical debts. They wrote this platitude about me: I can’t even afford to pay attenton. But since paying attention is actually free, it’s about all I do besides writing and daily living activities. Paying attention is about the only all-expenses-prepaid vacations I take.

I’ve considered organizing one hereabouts where the destination is so attractive just being there would be worth the low conference cost and whatever travel expenses, primitive accommodations, room and board of about thirty bucks a day. But it would be at the edge of the known universe travel-wise. If Moses cant’ go to the mountain, bring the mountain to Moses.

I’m comtemplating trying starting a free, small, private online writing conference that would suit my circumstances. Private writing excerpt circulation and commentary, writing topic seminars, writing struggle colloquy give and take. Sure, there’s already a plentitude of online writing venues. I want to taylor one to my needs so all the routine, digressive roughhousing crap doesn’t harsh my mellow. I’ve discussed it with writers having similar needs. No takers yet. Just naysayers.

Where there’s a wll there’s a way.

]]> By: Bill http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/mcbrides/comment-page-1/#comment-1006 Bill Sun, 11 Jul 2010 04:44:51 +0000 http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/?p=814#comment-1006 a lot of great writers conferences have scholarships, internships, all kinds of ships... and a lot are free are or offer free admission to readings, lectures, etc... the Kachemak conference is heavily subsidized in various ways... and the post-conference wasn't expensive at all, not for the value... put away ten bucks a week for a year and you're there! a lot of great writers conferences have scholarships, internships, all kinds of ships… and a lot are free are or offer free admission to readings, lectures, etc… the Kachemak conference is heavily subsidized in various ways… and the post-conference wasn’t expensive at all, not for the value… put away ten bucks a week for a year and you’re there!

]]> By: Kevin Morgan Watson http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/mcbrides/comment-page-1/#comment-1003 Kevin Morgan Watson Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:40:39 +0000 http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/?p=814#comment-1003 Sounds like my kind of place and people. Thanks for sharing this, Bill. Sounds like my kind of place and people. Thanks for sharing this, Bill.

]]> By: John Jack http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/mcbrides/comment-page-1/#comment-1002 John Jack Sat, 10 Jul 2010 20:25:12 +0000 http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/?p=814#comment-1002 I've attended a couple writers' conferences, big ones, cattle-call-like large affairs that were open to the public and freely accessible. The public seminars and readings and discussions were pointed and insightful, some in unintended ways opened my eyes to qualities of storycraft I'd overlooked. My agoraphobia anxiety level was challenged. A few tactical adjustments and imaginary barrier building made them survivable. Only slight dissociative episodes. I can't afford the quaint, private ones that would more suit my needs and comfort zone. I'm jealous. C'est la vie. A poet's journey ultimately is a private one. I’ve attended a couple writers’ conferences, big ones, cattle-call-like large affairs that were open to the public and freely accessible. The public seminars and readings and discussions were pointed and insightful, some in unintended ways opened my eyes to qualities of storycraft I’d overlooked. My agoraphobia anxiety level was challenged. A few tactical adjustments and imaginary barrier building made them survivable. Only slight dissociative episodes.

I can’t afford the quaint, private ones that would more suit my needs and comfort zone. I’m jealous. C’est la vie. A poet’s journey ultimately is a private one.

]]> By: Magnus http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/mcbrides/comment-page-1/#comment-999 Magnus Sat, 10 Jul 2010 07:34:38 +0000 http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/?p=814#comment-999 Thanks for the invite! Looking forward to reading more - hope to see you again and share stories. Thanks for the invite! Looking forward to reading more – hope to see you again and share stories.

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