Questions and Answers – Vegas Edition

I‘ve been back from Vegas for a week and still feel like I’m barely catching my breath.

Last week flew by like a mad swath of cool and unexpected wind, wrapping my world in disarray and excitement. This week I’m heading to a quickie two day conference on the future of communication. A giant THANKS to Maya of the wonderful MemeTales who has given me the tickets for the conference. She will be speaking at the Publishing Gets Collaborative panel, which will explore the role of Twitter in bringing together writers, illustrators, editors and publishers to create the new publishing ecosystem.

As you can imagine, it is a panel I’m eagerly looking forward to.

So last Thursday Cindy came home and shut the door to our Sienna on the top of her head, the metal corner carving a zig zag ravine down the middle of her skull. Stubborn and rather Rambo like as my lady is, she refused to head to the emergency room. “It’ll knit itself,” she said. She was right – it’s been three days and it’s swollen and crusty, but healing. It was scary at first though, because in case you’ve never read a book or seen a movie – head wounds bleed. Like a lot. Two minutes after it happened she looked like an extra from True Blood.

I couldn’t be more proud of Mia, who ran upstairs and calmly delivered the news. “Mommy cut her head and it’s really really bad. There’s blood everywhere. It’s at least three times as bad as the worst time when I hurt my head. Mommy needs you RIGHT NOW.” Her words were silk whipping in wind, lost in flight but perfectly smooth.

Because I’ve been playing lots of catch up, haven’t sat down to really write, but I would love to connect and share my adventures. The best way to do this, I believe, is too rap out in my best conversational style. Go ahead and ask whatever you’d like to know in the comments and I’ll write a post that answers any question that comes in either Monday or Tuesday. I’m doing the same thing over at the Inkwell, so if there’s a question that’s more professional than personal, you’re welcome to drop it over there.

While we’re at it, I’m planning to do another video interview with each of my children soon. If there are any questions you would like to suggest, I would love to add them to the list.

Lastly, there is a new comment system downstairs. It isn’t terribly attractive and do I apologize for that, but it has a feature that I can’t argue with.

It allows me to answer comments through email.

This does everything for my workflow. Email is a natural rhythm of conversation for me. Whenever a comment is posted, I get an email. It is often when reading this email that I have my most natural response. It’s different when I come back to the site to answer them later. Being able to answer and post the reply into the comments by email is a wonderful option that I’m eager to explore.

I’m not married to it yet though, so feel free to let me know your thoughts. That troublemaker George Roper already gave me an earful.

See you tomorrow.

Writer Dad

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