The panels I'd really like to attend...

[elfs]

There's a writer's workshop to which I've been invited, and I have to say that I'm intrigued by the offerings on hand but I'm reluctant to blow the $65 it takes just to listen to the kinds of things I often get as part of the package at NorWesCon or any other writer's convention. The track I'm most interested in contains the following panels: "Plot and Structure", "The Short Fiction Toolbox", "All the Good Advice I Wish I'd Gotten Way Back When", and "How Natural History can Enliven Your Prose."

I think those are all fine panels, but there are a few panels I'd love to see. Most writing groups aren't interested in supported the mass-market producer or the serial writer. But why aren't there panels like "Episode 300: How To Avoid Repeating Yourself Yet Again"? Or "Twenty Years of Avoiding the Brain-eater"? Or "Trust Me: Your Current Works In Progress Aren't Merely Pale Shadows Of The Stuff You Wrote Ten Years Ago"?

Because I could probably use a couple of those.

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[damiana-swan.livejournal.com]

I've heard that they do take suggestions. :-)

The panels I'd really like to attend...

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe it's time to write a outline, find a clean T-shirt, and go up on the stage.

Whenever I do presentations (for a historical group), I usually get enough feedback/information from the audience on the subject to make it worthwhile.

Stryker