I had promised some final thoughts on my first Worldcon, and in the nearly three weeks since it ended I’ve had plenty of time to ruminate and absorb other people’s con reports.
First of all, it was a great lot of fun! My girlfriend and I had an absolute blast, and are already making a list [...]
NOTE: I tried to post this yesterday, but my web host seemed to go down. Hence, this is a day late.
The morning started off with sleeping in a bit—there were no 9:00 AM panels that grabbed our interest more than sleep did, and so it was at 10:00 AM that we hit up the “Movements [...]
Sunday evening was the main event—the Hugo Awards presentation. Before that, being human beings of a hungry sort, we decided to seek out food.
This proved to be more problematic that we could have imagined. We first decided to go back to Le Steak Frites, but found them to be booked full until 8:30 or later, [...]
The fourth day of Worldcon was also a big one, and quite full.
We started at 9 AM once again, with a panel on “How Not to be a Jerk Online”. I went to this because John Scalzi—whose blog and work I am a fan of—was one of the panelists, and I suspected it was a [...]
Day 3 of Worldcon was a very panel-heavy day for us.
We started with “Writing for the Non-Adult”, which had a nice mix of panelists that played off each other well, and talked about the difficulties of writing for children and young adults, both in terms of craft and the market. This included elements such as [...]
When last we left our heroes, they were heading back to the Con for the Neil Gaiman signing, tickets to which they had acquired earlier that day. Arriving at 3:30 PM (for the 4:00 signing), there was already a massive line of ticketholders ahead of us. So, we had a half hour wait before the [...]
This was a long day, very full of delightful things.
The morning started early, as we went to line up to get tickets for the Neil Gaiman signing. We arrived at about 8:30, and (thankfully) the line was still pretty small then. We got moved around a little bit, but by 9:10 they started handing out [...]
Saturday, May 9th dawned dark and gloomy, but I didn’t mind. I was still flying high after a round of heavy Star Trek the night before, and even taking my best gal to the airport in the rain couldn’t get me down. I knew she’d be back. She always came back.
But a man can’t live [...]
This weekend past, a few of my favourite authors were appearing at Ad-Astra, Toronto’s regional SF convention. Since I’m going to Worldcon this summer, I figured attending Ad-Astra would be a good practice run, and so off I went, with a few others in tow.
Now, strictly speaking, my secondary title up above (”My First Con”) [...]
As I’m sure any of my regular readers here are aware, I had been planning to participate in NaNoWriMo again this year, but with a plan — an outline, even — ready in advance of November 1st. The last two months, however, have been extremely busy for me academically, and I have been struggling to [...]