How an orchid is like a manuscript

I had a dozen ideas for what to post about today, but none of them have coalesced into a coherent blog post. I think I'm still digesting this past weekend's New England SCBWI conference, at which I pursued my usual strategy, taking a mix of workshops from the practical-business (Skype) to the practical-craft (revising fiction and how to show-not-tell) to the creative stretches (poetry and nonfiction). I also marked up a manuscript at night, and mingled with fellow writers.

My husband was with ...