Tomorrow, I’m heading to When Words Collide, a writing conference/festival in Calgary.  It’ll be my first time going to an event exclusively about writing and I’m both nervous and excited.  I’ve gone to writing panels before at conventions like Calgary and Edmonton Expo but there’s usually only two or three and none of them have ever focused on romance novels.  This conference has over 200 panels dedicated to all aspects of researching, writing, editing, and publishing; I’m going to at least 20 of them; and at least five of those focus solely on writing romance.  I’m guaranteed to learn something new - even if it’s something small - at all of those panels. But writing panels and craft books and writing classes and novels aren’t how I’ve learned the most about writing.  It’s by reading fanfiction.