All I Really Need to Know I Learned at Odyssey

[babarnett]

My writing isn't nearly as good as I thought it was.

Conversely, my writing doesn't suck nearly as much as I thought it did.

There are a lot of writing concepts that I didn't understand nearly as well as I thought I did.

I now have a serious arsenal of tools and insight with which to improve my writing.

There are a lot of good writers out there who haven't submitted their work yet, and it's a shame because there are a lot of grammatically challenged people who have.

Writing under the name B. A. Barnett has the unintended effect of making some people think of the A-Team's B. A. Baracus.

Galaxy Quest is a brilliant movie.

Eating lots of chocolate may seem like a good means of procrastination and stress reduction, but unfortunately, your pants won't fit so well by week 6 of the workshop.

Fun is for the weak.

So is sleep.

You can't know your story's crap at 8 a.m.

The letter K is funny.

Chickens are even funnier.

There are a lot more chickens in Monty Python & the Holy Grail than I remembered.

Clown sex is disturbing.

It's surprisingly easy for multiple authors to litter their stories with references to bloodstained clovers.

Lists full of in-jokes will only be funny to those who are in on the joke.

I am Megatron!