Orycon starts tomorrow, which I’m very much looking forward to. Here is my schedule and I hope to see some of you there.
| Panel Start | Panel End | Panel Title |
|---|---|---|
| Panel Location | Panel Description | |
| Moderator in Bold | ||
| Fri Nov 27 12:00:pm | Fri Nov 27 1:00:pm | I have a story idea, where do I start? |
| Madison | Beginnings, middles and endings. Characters and situations. What is required to translate your great idea into a real story. | |
| David D. Levine, Mary Robinette Kowal, Mary Rosenblum/Mary Freeman, Robin Hobb | ||
| Fri Nov 27 1:00:pm | Fri Nov 27 2:00:pm | Nanowrimo: Shut up and Write In! |
| Madison | A brief explanation of National Novel Writing Month and why this isn’t just a practice novel. NaNoWriMo writing time follows. | |
| Kamila Miller, Shannon Page, Mary Robinette Kowal | ||
| Fri Nov 27 4:00:pm | Fri Nov 27 5:00:pm | Group 1 Fantasy Short Story |
| WW1 | ||
| Mary Robinette Kowal, Michelle Lyons | ||
| Fri Nov 27 5:00:pm | Fri Nov 27 6:00:pm | Stalking the wild anthology – tips for success |
| Morrison | How to get invitations to anthologies, and once you`re in, how to balance standing out vs. fitting with the anthology, how stories work in the grand scheme of total word count, and other anthology lore. | |
| Kal Cobalt, Jennifer Brozek, William F. Nolan, Mary Robinette Kowal, Rhea Rose | ||
| Sat Nov 28 10:00:am | Sat Nov 28 11:00:am | SFWA Business Meeting |
| Hawthorne | SFWA Members are urged to attend. SFWA’s Western Regional Director will brief members of the latest developments in SFWA. | |
| James Fiscus, Mary Robinette Kowal | ||
| Sat Nov 28 12:00:pm | Sat Nov 28 1:00:pm | Building a balanced mythos |
| Roosevelt | How to balance the mortal, immortal, mythical, legendary and cultural elements when world building. | |
| Lou Anders, Mary Robinette Kowal, Alma Alexander, Rebecca Neason, Robin Hobb | ||
| Sat Nov 28 2:00:pm | Sat Nov 28 2:30:pm | Mary Robinette Kowal reading |
| Madison | Mary Robinette Kowal reads from her work. | |
| Mary Robinette Kowal | ||
| Sat Nov 28 4:00:pm | Sat Nov 28 5:00:pm | Google Book Settlement |
| Morrison | What’s all the fuss about the Google book settlement? If the courts okay it, how would it affect writers? Does it violate the basic rules of copyright? What do published writers have to do to protect their rights? | |
| James Fiscus, Patricia Briggs, Michael Briggs, Mary Robinette Kowal | ||
| Sat Nov 28 5:00:pm | Sat Nov 28 6:00:pm | Broad Universe readings |
| Washington | Broad Universe is an organization for promoting and celebrating genre fiction written by women. Members will read short excerpts from their work. | |
| Camille Alexa, Kamila Miller, Brenda Cooper, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Mary Robinette Kowal, Kristin Landon, M.K. Hobson, Phoebe Kitanidis, A.M. Dellamonica | ||
| Sun Nov 29 11:00:am | Sun Nov 29 12:00:pm | The unique challenges of urban fantasy |
| Roosevelt | Increasingly, stories are being placed in modern times or locales but with fantasy elements to them. Whether it is wizards in Walla Walla or vampires in Vancouver, how does one effectively blend these very different elements? Alternatively, what are some examples of how NOT to accomplish this? | |
| Patricia Briggs, Irene Radford/P.R.Frost//C.F. Bentley, Devon Monk, Mary Robinette Kowal | ||
| Sun Nov 29 1:00:pm | Sun Nov 29 2:00:pm | All our cats are green |
| Grant | Exploration of everyday applications of science fiction technology in the lives of Joe-average characters. What are the societal consequences of transporters, and do you really want to go there with your story? What if all major diseases were conquered, or all people were immortal? | |
| Elton Elliott, Mary Robinette Kowal, Jennifer Brozek, David W. Goldman, Richard A. Lovett | ||
Wow, they are keeping you busy! I was on a Google books settlement panel at WFC (which was before the recent amendments) and did some homework to prepare for it. If you want to brush up on it, the Wikipedia entry is especially useful for its links to sites like the Public Index.
Thanks! I’ve been keeping more or less up on it because of SFWA’s involvement but I’m not the point person so having another source is excellent.
Will there be puppets at the reading tomorrow at 2? 😛