I've been at the summer workshop the last two years, but I wasn't able to go this year. This really upset me, as many of my friends whom I desperately wanted to meet were going this year, but I couldn't. I continually saw people from the workshop posting things on Facebook and I begged them to video chat with me at some point, but they never got around to it. I even had a dream about being there during the workshop and woke up horribly depressed.
However, despite all that, when everyone got back and were posting all of their sad posts of wishing they were back and how awesome it was, I decided to ignore it. I decided, "Fine, I wasn't at the workshop, I can't be included in all of this, but I'm not going to mope about it. I'm going to be happy and focus on my writing and be happy with that."
Since then, I've been a whole lot happier than I've been in a while. I'm writing, I'm doing the thing that the workshop should really make you want to do, but everyone's too upset that they've left to remember to write.
So while I didn't get to be with a bunch of amazing writers that week, I did learn to buck up and just keep on writing anyway. And when my friends got back, they shared their stories with me and I laughed with them and cried with them as if I had been there myself. And I kept on writing.
So to you people who did get to go to the SW, be glad you got to go, but don't be sad you're not there anymore. Go on with your lives, even if they're hard. Push forward. And most importantly, keep writing.
~Rachel Casto
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