Yea for lock-ins!

$50/$25 members, fee includes catered breakfast and lunch, unlimited coffee, and sporadic wireless internet access. Taking a Grb Street class is a fantastic way to learn the craft of creative writing, as well as a way to connect with other writers, revise your manuscripts and get ideas for future stories. But it’s not sitting down and actually putting pen to paper for multiple hours and cranking out the words. That’s what the Lock-In is all about. For one day, be the dedicated writer you always want to be at our seven-hour catered lock-in. You’ll meet and visit with Grub Street staff and other writers, eat good food, and have fun getting a month’s worth of writing done in one afternoon at our inspiring headquarters. In fact, you’ll have no choice. Open to writers of all genres.

All I have to say is BIC HOK TAM! For those of you who don’t know what that means, it’s an acronym for “Butt In Chair, Hands On Keyboard, Typing Away Madly”. It is one of my favourite cheers from the Book in a Week (BIW) and National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) groups. And besides going into total writer mode I’m going to be not only reminded to eat, but rather I am going to be given food. Considering I am one of those writers who is a bit of the absent minded professor types and food appears nowhere on my radar while working that is a good thing. I need to be reminded. I’m only human after all (much as my brain wanders non-human paths in the effort to edit and write my spec fic novels).

So, yea Kid for the perfect writing present for a writer. Though I should expect it as she is a writer herself.