Wow, it feels like the second day of Worldcon was forever ago.\u00a0 Usually, Friday is the first real day of a convention, but since Thursday was the first full day of Worldcon, that wasn’t the case.<\/p>\n
I don’t remember a whole lot from it, but there were a few really awesome panels.<\/p>\n
In the morning, I went to a social networking panel with Tee Morris and Cory Doctorow, among others.\u00a0 Awesome, fast paced discussion–pure gold, every second of it.\u00a0 The main takeaway I got was to try out everything, but only stick with the things I actually enjoy.\u00a0 There are lots and lots of ways to use social networking tools, and if something is compelling but not enjoyable, it’s not much better than a life-killing addiction.\u00a0 Also, Facebook is the equivalent of high fructose corn syrup.<\/p>\n
In the afternoon, I went to a panel on romantic elements in science fiction, with Louis Master Bujold on it, among others.\u00a0 She made perhaps the most interesting point I heard all weekend: that in romance, women typically write about love and life, whereas men typically write about love and death.\u00a0 SO TRUE.<\/strong>\u00a0 It happens all the time in my own work, to the point where you can set your watch by it.<\/p>\n After a long and tiring day, I took off a couple hours before the parties just to decompress (and also blog about Thursday, as you may have noticed).\u00a0 Got caught up on David Gaughran<\/a>‘s blog, which as usual had some interesting analysis about the latest news in the ebook revolution.\u00a0 And then…well, let’s just say I got into a little bit of a discussion with a senior editor at Tor about ebooks and whether it’s a good idea now to self publish.\u00a0 His parting shot: “You’re not going to win this argument!” To which I wanted to respond: “I don’t care about winning it with you; I care about winning it with the readers.”<\/p>\n Seriously, when it came to ebooks and epublishing, almost every editor, agent, and author at the convention either had deer in the headlights syndrome or was in outright denial.\u00a0 It’s gotten to a point where they can’t ignore it, but literally everyone who brought up the subject on a panel either dismissed all successful indie writers as outliers, or brought up the flood-of-crap argument that so many people have already debunked<\/a>.\u00a0 I don’t think the publishers are quite as stupid as the record labels in the late 90s…but seriously, they aren’t much better.<\/p>\n Not that I was purposefully trying to be antagonistic.\u00a0 I only brought up the subject with that particular editor because I knew I didn’t have a chance with him.\u00a0 For the most part, all I did at the con was listen and observe.\u00a0 But man–there’s a lot of willful ignorance out there.\u00a0 And after a while, that made me a little disillusioned with the whole convention…but more on that later.<\/p>\n Suffice it to say, Friday was a long and eventful day that went by so quickly I’ve forgotten almost everything else that happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wow, it feels like the second day of Worldcon was forever ago.\u00a0 Usually, Friday is the first real day of a convention, but since Thursday was the first full day of Worldcon, that wasn’t the case. 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