>VCCA Days 8 and 9

>Thursday at VCCA just got weirder and weirder. I worked reasonably well in the morning–since I had done what I set out to do…

>VCCA Day 7

>Not much to report. I worked reasonably well on one of the last stories in the collection, “The Kingdom of Witness.” Maybe. In the…

>VCCA Day 6

> All the visual artists left today. Very strange. In the morning I worked on two new stories for the collection: “The Developer’s Dilemma”…

>VCCA Day 5

>For the first time, VCCA is shutting down for the Christmas holiday. Which means that by the 22nd, when I leave, the place will…

>VCCA Day 4

> Sunday was quiet here as a number of fellows headed off to visit local sights–Charlottesville to the north, Lynchburg to the south (some…

>VCCA Day 3

> Day 3 already? Because it was Saturday, breakfast was a half hour later, so I was late getting out to my studio this…

>VCCA Day 2

>I got a fair amount of work done today, especially in the morning. In the late afternoon I took a walk in the woods…

>VCCA Day 1

>It’s as wonderful as I remembered–better, even, because there’s little of the new place anxiety. I got settled into my room–a great one, with…

>VCCA

>I’m off today for a week’s residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the wonderful artists’ retreat in Amherst, Virginia, across the…