Thus encouraged, it’s back to the fiction mines for me.

Thanks for a most clear and pragmatic advisory for applicants. As an area resident, you seem to have special knowledge. Now, if like some speculative writers one were to have a window into the future and KNOW that acceptance was forthcoming, just how are the living conditions and class schedules? That is one thing that is not specified. I’m guessing it is at or near a college campus? Will we be living in a dorm? Single or larger bed, roommate(s)? How will internet access work? Like everyone else, I’ve become dependent upon the net for writing research and to keep the bills paid when I’m on the road.

I realize the writing load is intense and I want to be completely focused while there, but if you wanted to have your spouse fly up for a three-day weekend in the middle of the six-week session, would that interfere with the workload? Is there a place to exercise at a college or a gym with guest membership or something? I’m thinking of bringing my bike and maybe just riding that most of the time. Did you find most people flew in or drove in with their own car? Is a car even necessary for survival items like groceries or toiletries?

Thanks for helping me with these mundane and quite unliterary questions.

Regards,

Tom Rodgers

You have no idea how much that makes me smile, Caren! :) I’m working as fast as I can.

Thanks for the tips. I can’t apply this year (my MA has drained whatever financial backflip energy I could muster up) but I’ll keep it together for whenever I do go again.

If you’re up in Bellingham sometime, come grab a coffee and writing session with us at the Black Drop.