Protecting the Joy

Conference is officially over for another year. Writers are headed back to their computers, recharged and ready to write again–or lingering in New York for a few more days of sight seeing before getting our butts back into those chairs.

I’m still recovering from my post-conference coma, but I wanted to take this chance to talk about some of our most valuable conference take-aways, either from RWA15 or other writing conferences.

My conference this year was largely consumed by committee respons...