It all started with an innocent conversation with Anil in the hallway of the spacious and wood-paneled Vancouver Convention Center earlier this year at TBEX. We’d run into each other before in NY, Santiago, and then Vancouver. He’s one of those on-the-roaders, no permanent address people. Not me, got a depto which I [...]
Getting to TBEX
(a prompt given in the Narrative Writing workshop run by Andrew Evans, Don George (both of whom write for National Geographic) and Pam Mandel from Nerdseyeview. The conference and the workshop are explained below.)
First there was a bus from downtown Santiago, onto which I had to Tetris my [...]
Someone commented last year at TBEX (perhaps Don George, who’s coming back, yay for us!) the truism that although people (somewhat goofily) ask a photographer about his equipment upon seeing a particularly stunning shot, that no one asks a writer what kind of keyboard they use to produce their brilliant prose. I love [...]
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- @AnujAdhiya looks very, very handy, and is finding things that @kayak @orbitz @tripadvisor @travelocity and @hipmunk didn't. Wheee. www.twitter.com/bearshapedspher
- @AngieAway thanks, but it's a multi-city itinerary, looks like maybe they only do RT? www.twitter.com/bearshapedspher
- who has been giving you the best deals on flights lately. I'm looking on kayak, but am open to other ideas. hipmunk? anyone else? www.twitter.com/bearshapedspher
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