Postscript

... all writers met or exceeded their goals! Woo hoo!

Quote of the evening, by a man herding his three daughters to the barista: "Oh, they must be some kind of wireless group." What's with that? Doesn't wireless mean you don't need to hunch together?

Well, it's no stranger than writers, practitioners of The Solitary Profession, huddling in a mass over caffeine.