A Visit to UW-Whitewater

After Monday's visit to the behemoth campus of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, I spent yesterday at the much smaller but very well-appointed campus at UW-Whitewater.  Located about 50 miles west of Milwaukee in the gently rolling farmland of central Wisconsin, over 11,000 students were enjoying the freakish 70 degree, sunny weather in mid-November.

I liked this campus right away.  I don't know if it just seemed like the right size, or there was a sense of fewer distractions than at Madison, but I felt comfortable there immediately and thought it would be a good fit for Faye and Max.  I wound up putting up eight posters around campus at the following locations:

-Hyland Hall (Business Building – 3)

-Upham Hall (Physics)

-University Center (The Union)

-Drumlin Hall (Student dining hall)

-McGraw Hall (PC lab)

-Greenhill Center for the Arts

I was happy with the locations and the posters will get a lot of eyeballs walking past them every day.  Hopefully, I'll see the number of hits to the FleshWoundTheBook.com/wordpress site go up this week!

So what is next?  Today and tomorrow I'm staying close to home to take care of some family-related things, plus call the student newspapers at the four schools I've visited thus far to find out advertising rates.  It would be good to follow up the posters with an ad in the paper to reinforce the message.  Friday, I'll be revisiting Marquette and UW-Milwaukee to see how many of the posters I put up made it through one week.  Then next Monday, I'll visit the UW campus at Oshkosh and perhaps Green Bay.

So right now the writing life doesn't include much writing, mostly just PR.  But I do get to write this blog, and I'm going to start blogging at the Flesh Wound site as well.  I had some interesting thoughts come to me as I was touring the campuses, and I think Faye will have some comments on them that will make a good blog post.

I hope your week is going as well as mine!  Read something today that surprises you.  Thanks for reading!  -Jon