No #AWP attendee can do a rundown of the event without talking about the goings-on outside of the conference center.

The first year I attended the conference of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, I went as a writer.

One particularly memorable conversation was with a woman who mentioned that her website content and blogs often fall short when it comes to simple proofreading.

Proofreading is not glamorous. The book comes in and I make sure it’s correct, consistent, and ready to publish. But sometimes a proofreading project is genuinely fun to work on.

Telling rather than showing is a clichéd piece of criticism in writing workshops. But really the advice to “show don’t tell” has to do with many layers of writing, not just with providing more detail as most novice writers mistakenly believe.