{"id":5855,"date":"2011-08-18T00:45:45","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T06:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=5855"},"modified":"2011-08-18T00:45:45","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T06:45:45","slug":"worldcon-2011-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/worldcon-2011-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Worldcon 2011: Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just a quick update from Renovation<\/a>\u00a0before I crash for the night.<\/p>\n

We left Provo pretty early–about 6:30, actually–and met up with Eric in Eagle Mountain. \u00a0The drive to Reno was pretty long, but we had some awesome geeky conversations along the way. \u00a0My favorite: how to successfully conduct an alien invasion.<\/p>\n

So we rolled into town around 4:30, dropped our stuff off at the hotel, and hiked down to the convention center to register and wander around aimlessly until finding people we knew. \u00a0At least, that’s what I did, and even though it’s a big con (about 4k to 5k people) it didn’t take long to run into a bunch of writing friends from Utah. \u00a0The cool part: they had cornered Moshe Feder and were having a delightful conversation with him. \u00a0Awesome guy, Moshe Feder. \u00a0Very gracious and fun to talk with.<\/p>\n

After that, I went with the gang to Tachyon Press’s panel. \u00a0It was pretty good; a little dry, but still interesting. \u00a0Kristy is really hoping to land an editing job with one of these companies, so she was more into it than I was, though I did ask a few questions about epublishing. \u00a0I asked Moshe too, and my general vibe is that people in the traditional system are still in a “wait and see” mode.<\/p>\n

So then we all went to IHOP, which was fun; it was good to catch up a bit, as well as relax and enjoy some good food. \u00a0I went back to the con alone and browsed the freebie tables a bit, but there didn’t seem to be too much happening other than parties for the various committees trying to get their city voted for next year’s Worldcon. \u00a0However, there seem to be a lot of movies showing in the late evening hours here (something I haven’t seen at a con before), so in the future I’ll have to try that out too. \u00a0In any case, it was a pretty relaxing and uneventful evening.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow is PACKED, though, and by packed I mean there’s waaay<\/em> too much stuff going on for me to hit it all. \u00a0But out of all those, the one panel that I absolutely WILL attend is “Making It As a Writer” with Dean Wesley Smith, among others. \u00a0That one looks fascinating.<\/p>\n

Other than that, I don’t have much to say. \u00a0The convention is just getting started, so there’s not a whole lot to report…yet. \u00a0I’ll keep you posted as the good stuff happens. \u00a0In the meantime, sleeeeeep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just a quick update from Renovation\u00a0before I crash for the night. We left Provo pretty early–about 6:30, actually–and met up with Eric in Eagle Mountain. \u00a0The drive to Reno was pretty long, but we had some awesome geeky conversations along the way. \u00a0My favorite: how to successfully conduct an alien invasion. So we rolled into… Continue reading Worldcon 2011: Wednesday<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[82,221,122,95,562],"class_list":["post-5855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-conventions","tag-eric-james-stone","tag-friends","tag-lack-of-sleep","tag-worldcon-2011","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-1wr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5855"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5858,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855\/revisions\/5858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}