Starry Heaven is a writing workshop modeled after CC Finlay's Blue Heaven. It's held in Flagstaff, AZ. It's not led by anyone. Rather, it's a peer group of professionally published writers (twelve of us) who get together to critique one another's manuscripts. I'm looking forward to this year, but I'm a bit stressed as well. The novel idea I had for the workshop was a bit more raw than I thought it was, and I'm having trouble fleshing it out sufficiently so that I can get to the business of knocking out the first draft. I have 30 or so pages now, most of it good, but I can't go much further without knowing a lot more about the story. The tentative title is Xioka. You can think of it as Nausicaa meets the Coldfire Trilogy (C. S. Friedman). It's a post-holocaust science-fantasy about a teenage girl summoned as a ghost back into the world two hundred years after she left it. I made some good progress these last few days, so hopefully I'm back to writing tomorrow or the day after.