![AWP 2012 is next week, and for the moment almost every conversation around my corner of UMass at some point veers into some variation of “are you going to [x] [party/reading],” “after AWP…,” “I’ll be at AWP,” “last year was such a [zoo/mess/pain/scene/incubator for [x]].”
I’m not going, partly because I missed the deadline for proposing a panel, and partly because money, but mainly because I’m trying to stay in the zone with my book (can I call it that when it’s not done?) and at this point my deadline scares me more than any missing out.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzwh39Q3os1qa0rqvo1_1280.jpg)
AWP 2012 is next week, and for the moment almost every conversation around my corner of UMass at some point veers into some variation of “are you going to [x] [party/reading],” “after AWP…,” “I’ll be at AWP,” “last year was such a [zoo/mess/pain/scene/incubator for [x]].”
I’m not going, partly because I missed the deadline for proposing a panel, and partly because money, but mainly because I’m trying to stay in the zone with my book (can I call it that when it’s not done?) and at this point my deadline scares me more than any missing out.
