NorWesCon Blur
Apr. 22nd, 2003 11:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsWell, that was a long weekend. Omaha and I made serious use of KidKon at Norwescon and appreciated their services immensely. It's all a blur, really: ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fallenpegasus hung out with us and was a fabulous help when we needed someone to run interference, and for that I thank him. shemayazi has offered to take me clothes shopping because I am incompetent at it and I need some "sexier" boi clothes. Of course, if she did that, Pegasus said he'd drag me to the Mercury to show me off to the denizens, animegothgirl especially, who was all bouncy at the prospect.
The sad fact, though, is that as a parent, my first duty is to making sure the sprog is fed, slept, and protected. So I didn't make it to the Merchants of Deva (forty gallons of alcohol? Great Caesar's Ghost!) party, nor to any of the many others to which I was invited. I didn't get to dance even once. I let Omaha do some of those things for me because, y'know, she just doesn't socialize enough. Between Kouryou-chan and her radio show, she's too busy. And KidKon kept Kouryou-chan so ramped up and active that she fell asleep in my arms while I was reading The Lorax to her Friday night.
I stayed out of the poly and BDSM panels; they don't interest me much anymore. It's not as if I feel I know everything there is to know, but I'm much happier with my existence at the moment staying out of these exceptionally cliquish little shows.
On the other hand, I did go to the writer's panels and... who's idea was it to put into the "Writing a Good Sex Scene" panel three people who all confessed to not writing sex scenes? That was the worst panel I've ever attended. The "girl cooties" was okay (how to get women to read more S/F), and the panel with Mike Moscoe on finding outlets for publication was equally good.
Moscoe also dropped on my head the perfect solution to my problem with the sequel to Aimee' I wrote for NaNoWriMo: "If all she does for 50,000 words is angst to her mentor, why not kill the mentor?" Duh.
fallenpegasus hung out with us and was a fabulous help when we needed someone to run interference, and for that I thank him. shemayazi has offered to take me clothes shopping because I am incompetent at it and I need some "sexier" boi clothes. Of course, if she did that, Pegasus said he'd drag me to the Mercury to show me off to the denizens, animegothgirl especially, who was all bouncy at the prospect.The sad fact, though, is that as a parent, my first duty is to making sure the sprog is fed, slept, and protected. So I didn't make it to the Merchants of Deva (forty gallons of alcohol? Great Caesar's Ghost!) party, nor to any of the many others to which I was invited. I didn't get to dance even once. I let Omaha do some of those things for me because, y'know, she just doesn't socialize enough. Between Kouryou-chan and her radio show, she's too busy. And KidKon kept Kouryou-chan so ramped up and active that she fell asleep in my arms while I was reading The Lorax to her Friday night.
I stayed out of the poly and BDSM panels; they don't interest me much anymore. It's not as if I feel I know everything there is to know, but I'm much happier with my existence at the moment staying out of these exceptionally cliquish little shows.
On the other hand, I did go to the writer's panels and... who's idea was it to put into the "Writing a Good Sex Scene" panel three people who all confessed to not writing sex scenes? That was the worst panel I've ever attended. The "girl cooties" was okay (how to get women to read more S/F), and the panel with Mike Moscoe on finding outlets for publication was equally good.
Moscoe also dropped on my head the perfect solution to my problem with the sequel to Aimee' I wrote for NaNoWriMo: "If all she does for 50,000 words is angst to her mentor, why not kill the mentor?" Duh.
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"how to get women to read more S/F"
Date: 2003-04-22 01:18 pm (UTC)So I ask, is there really? It would be interesting to do some research (makes a note to self)...
I know I'm the exception to the rule in most everything gender-related (why wasn't I born physically male? sigh), but I read more S/F than anything else (even fantasy novels, comic books, and programming references).
I'm still jealous of everyone getting to go to NorWesCon (heh), but I will be back in Seattle (to stay) for the 2005 NorWesCon. Kinda looking into the possibility of WesterCon 2003... dunno if its going to be economically feasable though.