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Home from TorCon
Notes from Toronto, many composed last night during a fit of insomnia at the hostel, in no particular order.
LA in 2006. (The woman over whose shoulder I read the news remarked, 'And now they make us pay and pay and pay and pay,' but I didn't have my sociability turned up high enough to ask whether that was a DS reference...)
I need to get a button that says SLASHER. I think it might make cons more entertaining. Meeting a fellow slasher (and sometime DS slasher at that) at the "Writing Gay Characters" panel was certainly the highlight of my weekend, as measured by time spent grinning stupidly afterward.
Connie Willis and John Scalzi have apparently both read the Very Secret Diaries. Connie brought them up in the 'how to write humor' panel as an example of excellent parody, while sitting two seats down from, y'know, Terry Pratchett. Esther Friesner has not only read the Very Secret Diaries, but apparently offered Cassie Claire a pro writing gig - a story in Chicks in Chainmail #5 - on the strength of them.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fairmer, who persists in telling me and everyone who will listen that writing fic is never going to advance your pro career, was a bit flummoxed (though pleased for Cassie) when I told her.
Connie Willis missed the Hugos due to food poisoning - she left the reception early to avoid puking on someone she was talking to. When it was pointed out to her that she had missed a golden opportunity to vomit on pretty much anyone in the biz, she remarked that David Brin did spring to mind...
All characters in Tanya Huff's books are bisexual until proven otherwise. You have been warned.
Two Towers won the Hugo for long form dramatic presentation. Someone whose name I didn't recognize and don't remember stepped up to accept the award. After apologizing for not being Sean Astin (who collected the Hugo last year when Fellowship won), he ponied up a taped acceptance speech by Peter Jackson.
Why didn't anyone tell me Spider Robinson is so cool? I wish I had a transcript of his opening remarks at the Hugos. He sang, he made fun of US politics, he talked about the wonder of space flight and the solemn responsibility of SF to keep dreaming the future we want to make real.
I fell in love with SF all over again.
I wrote my first HP-fic, an odd little Sirius snippet, longhand. Who needs SF anyway?
I also made progress on two DS fics, one of which had been stalled for close to a month. Go me!
I probably should have attended more programming.
I bought and read Hidden Warrior by Lynn Flewelling, finally, and. Where's book three? I want book three nooowwwwww.
I also did a bunch of shopping outside the con: HMV for a Stan Rogers cd, Roots for a t-shirt and watch and a button that says I [heart, except it's a maple leaf] T.O., Chapters for two books about Canada, Michael Turner's Hard Core Logo (I've read exactly enough to realize that it takes place in a parallel universe to the movie...), and a candle with a maple leaf on it, and IKEA for a desk and chair.
I went back for more buttons after the initial batch: "Pervy Diary-Fancier," "Will Work for Money," "Librarian Terrorist - Out of My Way Or I'll Catalog You," "It Doesn't Have to Make Sense, It's Library Policy," and "I'm Not Pompous, I'm Pedantic. There's a Difference."
It's now two in the morning, and I have to work tomorrow night, so I shouldn't go to sleep yet, although I'm tired and can't come up with any other remotely amusing anecdotes from the weekend just this second.
LA in 2006. (The woman over whose shoulder I read the news remarked, 'And now they make us pay and pay and pay and pay,' but I didn't have my sociability turned up high enough to ask whether that was a DS reference...)
I need to get a button that says SLASHER. I think it might make cons more entertaining. Meeting a fellow slasher (and sometime DS slasher at that) at the "Writing Gay Characters" panel was certainly the highlight of my weekend, as measured by time spent grinning stupidly afterward.
Connie Willis and John Scalzi have apparently both read the Very Secret Diaries. Connie brought them up in the 'how to write humor' panel as an example of excellent parody, while sitting two seats down from, y'know, Terry Pratchett. Esther Friesner has not only read the Very Secret Diaries, but apparently offered Cassie Claire a pro writing gig - a story in Chicks in Chainmail #5 - on the strength of them.
fairmer, who persists in telling me and everyone who will listen that writing fic is never going to advance your pro career, was a bit flummoxed (though pleased for Cassie) when I told her. Connie Willis missed the Hugos due to food poisoning - she left the reception early to avoid puking on someone she was talking to. When it was pointed out to her that she had missed a golden opportunity to vomit on pretty much anyone in the biz, she remarked that David Brin did spring to mind...
All characters in Tanya Huff's books are bisexual until proven otherwise. You have been warned.
Two Towers won the Hugo for long form dramatic presentation. Someone whose name I didn't recognize and don't remember stepped up to accept the award. After apologizing for not being Sean Astin (who collected the Hugo last year when Fellowship won), he ponied up a taped acceptance speech by Peter Jackson.
Why didn't anyone tell me Spider Robinson is so cool? I wish I had a transcript of his opening remarks at the Hugos. He sang, he made fun of US politics, he talked about the wonder of space flight and the solemn responsibility of SF to keep dreaming the future we want to make real.
I fell in love with SF all over again.
I wrote my first HP-fic, an odd little Sirius snippet, longhand. Who needs SF anyway?
I also made progress on two DS fics, one of which had been stalled for close to a month. Go me!
I probably should have attended more programming.
I bought and read Hidden Warrior by Lynn Flewelling, finally, and. Where's book three? I want book three nooowwwwww.
I also did a bunch of shopping outside the con: HMV for a Stan Rogers cd, Roots for a t-shirt and watch and a button that says I [heart, except it's a maple leaf] T.O., Chapters for two books about Canada, Michael Turner's Hard Core Logo (I've read exactly enough to realize that it takes place in a parallel universe to the movie...), and a candle with a maple leaf on it, and IKEA for a desk and chair.
I went back for more buttons after the initial batch: "Pervy Diary-Fancier," "Will Work for Money," "Librarian Terrorist - Out of My Way Or I'll Catalog You," "It Doesn't Have to Make Sense, It's Library Policy," and "I'm Not Pompous, I'm Pedantic. There's a Difference."
It's now two in the morning, and I have to work tomorrow night, so I shouldn't go to sleep yet, although I'm tired and can't come up with any other remotely amusing anecdotes from the weekend just this second.