Deer in the Headlights

Taos Toolbox is done.  Over the course of two weeks Nancy and I delivered 18 lectures, read and critiqued 280,000 words of fiction, wrangled three superbly informative guest speakers, and drank lots and lots of coffee. I’m now at home, staring blankly at the walls while listening to a strange, high-pitched ringing in my ears. We had 18 very talented new writers who were, as a group, very impressive in critique, had a an incredibly strong work ethic, and spent a lot of their free time working...