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title: 'First Conference: Part 1'
date: 2019-02-13
description: Feelings going to day one of my first writer's conference tomorrow.
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Whew! What a first day of learning writing in person with a professional. I took
a lot of notes in today's workshop with
[Dave Farland](https://twitter.com/davidfarland).

https://twitter.com/kent_writes/status/1095723663137984513

To be honest it was really just a bunch of lectures bunched onto one day. I was
kind of expecting exercises and things of that nature, but it's ok. I still
think there were some useful tools that I learned in his class so I'm glad that
I went.

https://twitter.com/kent_writes/status/1095760850827132928

It was really interesting to be an attendee of a workshop. So often I'm the one
up front giving the workshops (as a coder) and it was kinda fun experiencing
things as an attendee. I also developed a greater sympathy for attendees who are
exhausted by the end of a long workshop day. 😩

Mostly I had much of what I've been studying re-affirmed which is good. The more
that I hear this stuff, the more it internalize it and the more likely I'll be
to remember it. Even better, eventually it'll become second nature to me and the
concepts will show through in my planning and writing as the words leave my
fingers which will save me time in the long run. That's my hope anyway.

What I enjoyed almost more than the class was meeting people. I had wonderful
conversations with all kinds of writers during the breaks and I went to lunch
with a great group of authors. This great experience made me even more excited
about going to the conference these next few days.

I also spent a couple hours this evening updating the writing corner of this
website to be a bit better including fixing the subscribe form to subscribe you
to my writing newsletter (rather than my coding one). So if you'd like to hear
about my adventures writing, please subscribe!

_This is multi-part of a series of posts about LTUE 2019:_

- [Read Part 0](./first-conference-part-0)
- [Read Part 1 (that's this post)](./first-conference-part-1)
- [Read Part 2](./first-conference-part-2)
- [Read Part 3](./first-conference-part-3)
- [Read Part 4](./first-conference-part-4)
