How little I know

At our RWI meeting Saturday, my very own TechnoDiva, Mary Walton, and her whiz-kid sidekick, Sandee Wagner, did a program on websites. It was very informative and fun, and I learned several things:

1 -- Mary and Sandee are waaaaaaay smarter than the rest of us.

2 -- I'm techno-challenged (though I've known that a long time)

3 -- I'm also known as "one of my clients whose name I won't mention." (That prefaces all the weird, strange, dumb things that I've done or have been done to me.)

4 -- As long as I have a website, Diva Mary will do it for me.

I like playing around with stuff like graphics, fonts, designs. In fact, I once bought a do-it-yourself web design program and had tons of fun with it . . . but never got even close to a site I would want to put up and have people actually see. I wasted hours (and enjoyed every second of it), but while I was doing that, I wasn't writing. No use having an author's website if you're too busy working on it to write and sell any books.

Besides, I know myself well. While it's all "new," I spend lots of time on it. But after the "new" wears off, I lose interest and it becomes a chore rather than fun. Kinda like online banking. It was so cool to be able to go online, click here, here and here, and voila! The bills were paid. Now it's just mostly a quicker way to give my money away to other people. (But it's still waay faster than writing out checks, and faster is always cool. Well . . . almost always, she says with a wicked grin.)

Anyway, back to Saturday . . . we only had a couple hours for Mary and Sandee to talk, but they could have easily done the whole afternoon, and even though some of it was technical stuff, they presented it in a way that was understandable and interesting. I don't think in the technical way Sandee does or the creative way Mary does, but it was fun getting a peek into things from their perspective.

So if you belong to a writers' group and have a little money in your treasury to bring in an outstanding team of speakers, they're the ones. They'll do an afternoon program that'll leave you itching to get your fingers on the keyboard to start work on your own site . . . or, if you're like me, itching to get an email off to the TechnoDiva to let her go to work on it.

And she will do a fabulous job. After all, look around here and at selenamccaffrey.com. She did us, and we're beautiful.

Grinning off to work . . . Rachel8:36 AM