I had high hopes of writing this week’s ten pages while at AWP. I know! Cue laugh track! But I did actually knock out a couple of pages on Saturday morning. I was sitting in the hotel lobby trying to cram them in before the day began when a friendly stranger said, “My friend and I are going to be writing at this table until eight if you want to join us.” We exchanged a bit of small talk but then got to work and I only realized as they were getting up to leave that the person who had so kindly invited me in was none other than