Writers at the Round Table. Well, it’s kind of round and in the corner.

Writers at the Round Table. Well, it’s kind of round and in the corner.

Today over lunch I met with my writing group. We haven’t met in quite some time. Starting December I sent around an e-mail saying I missed them…and it took a over a month, but we collected again over lunch.

I pulled up late…as usual. They sat at same table and even though it had been over six months since we met, immediately it was like old times. Except only better.

Roger passed around a letter saying an editor so loved his book, after he made changes she couldn’t wait to pass it around to agents. She wrote of his dialogue (He does have way with dialogue), loving his characters in his flashbacks to Vietnam, on and on. All true. So happy for him because I had read lots of his stuff when we used to meet regularly before life got in the way.

Tracy had a crazy, crazy story about her agent (who is no longer her agent). Hate it when that happens. But she is working on another book, vampire romance thing which I read today while on elliptical (first four chapters) and it had me interested…though did question the hero’s (are vampires heroic?) use of “Jesus” and “Christ” as expletives. Are vampires able to do that without poofing away?

Then Kelly, who is a great writer, but stays busy trying to help everyone and everything. I think I made a huge break through today convincing her that she would be aweseome editor, and she needs to get paid doing this stuff.

I gave them the start of a new novel. Roger asked what happened to my old novel…did the protagonist have the affair?

I said that she didn’t have the affair; her husband did. And no, I wasn’t working on her story anymore ~ it wasn’t going anywhere. On second thought, maybe she should have been the one with the affair? Maybe that’s why it was RIP at this point?

No, that isn’t the point. The point is that he even remembered her and her story when I hadn’t thought her in a year. That was cool. (Very cool.) It was wonderful to be with my dear friends again, none of whom I would ever had known if it hadn’t been for this writing thing.

I am so much richer because of that meeting today…

What group in your life have you been missing? What is keeping you from emailing and scheduling a lunch or dinner?