Oh noes! Starvation looms! (Also, seriously, Melbourne...)

[desperance]

Definitely, I am ill. I forgot to feed the cats! Bizarrely, they forgot to remind me (Mac was sprawling in luxury, on my office comfy chair; Baz was hiding under the desk; they were both at hand. Too weak even to beg, presumably...), but even so. *is shocked at self*

(Inter alia: I've never enquired too deeply into the taste spectrum of their gushyfudz, I just read what it says on the tin and am cynical, and judge solely on the texture [being as how I can't judge by their reaction, because they just inhale anything, uncritically] - but today's is 'lamb with mint', and you take the lid off and whoo, yeah. Smell that mint...)

However: to our muttons. I need your advices, o interwebs. The opportunity has arisen to go on a study tour of both Edinburgh (Unesco's first City of Literature) and Melbourne (which is in the running to be the second). I need to tell these good people why I want to go, how I will benefit and most importantly how my organisation (The Write Fantastic? Phantoms at the Phil?) and the wider literary sector will benefit from my participation.

I can seriously make a case for this, because I'm quite heavily involved in managing literary events these days, under one hat or another - but I want to make a good case, and my head is stuffed with cotton wool tonight. So c'mon. Why should they take a writer on a study trip for literary professionals? How will such a trip feed back into what I do, outside the actual writing? Give me jargon, give me meaning, give me words...

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I have passed this enquiry on to gillpolack, of whom I spoke last night. Consider yourselves introduced!