Norwescon

[elfs]

I spent most of this weekend at NorWesCon, which has mostly been an exercise in frustration as it seems to have somehow missed having a writer's track. Usually there are so many writer's panels that I'm hard-pressed to get to many of them. This time there were so few that it was theoretically possible for me to go to all of them, if not for one other consideration: there was no KidCon this time. The 'con has shut it down, apparently due to insurance costs, which would have made it financially impossible. Apparently the regulators fear that KidCon amounts to an unlicensed daycare facility.

And so parents of all kinds, and there are a lot of us in fandom these days, were without a place to park the children for an hour here, an hour there, where they could do convention-level things on their own, while the adults went to panels about how to maim your characters effectively.

Still, I'm grateful for fallenpegasus for taking Kouryou-chan for one hour while I went to a panel.

I briefly stopped by the DAW Publishing room party, which was actually too crowded and noisy for me to accomplish anything or meet anyone. Besides, I really don't like Greg Bear's work. It has always impressed me as pretentious.

The hall costumes were gorgeous, as were the people who occupied them. Norwescon has a serious masquerade track, and there were people wearing hot orange and making it work, which I think is one of the reasons why modern clothing is so boring to me: I've seen so much better clothing at conventions.

I ran into so many people it's hard to enumerate them all: tabbifli, ivolucien, mevima, javagoth, shemayazi, animegothgrrl, and the list just seemed to go on...

I haven't gotten much writing done this weekend, which disappoints me. I suppose I've been too busy and having Kouryou-chan and Yamaraashi-chan, while fun in its own right, does make for a bit an anchor.

Comments

[nyssasemephit.livejournal.com]

That would not be a bad idea.... someone that is a licenced daycare person, watching kids for a while, so the parents can attend panals... Part of constaff.

[solarbird]

there was no KidCon this time. The 'con has shut it down, apparently due to insurance costs
It wasn't "they jacked the costs," it was "they found out we were doing this and cancelled our insurance immediately." We had to abandon it and anything like it in order to get our coverage back in time for the convention.

We're looking into solutions for next year, but we don't know what we'll be able to do yet. :(

[lisakit.livejournal.com]

I know dustin_00 was attending some kind of writer's track at the con. I think there was something about presubmitting things to work on and it wasn't as integrated with the rest of the con as other stuff. You might want to ask him about it.