Coming up on Memorial Day weekend, I’ll be over in Missoula, MT for a SF convention called MisCon. It’s one of the longest running conventions in the region, and I’m super excited to be back again.
It’s been stressful to prepare, though. Usually by now I have a schedule of programs and I’m starting to mentally prepare. I really hadn’t heard a word this year, until just today. I’ve only been advised I have a writer’s workshop that will be one-on-one with an author. (For two hours! Wow, I’m not sure what I’ll do with that length of time.) Other than that, I have no idea what panels I’m on.
It’s freaking me out a little, honestly. I’ve done the programming design many times, and I always make sure to communicate frequently with speakers. At times, I wondered if I was communicating too much and they thought I was that needy. Having this experience reminds me why I did it that way.
Before then, I really do need to get moving on the actual layouts for Queen Titania’s Court. Then I can have that set up to begin over the same Memorial Day weekend.
Anyhow, this is where I bring in my school skills of being flexible and just going with it. The weekend will be great.
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Unfortunately with MisCon, I’m going to Miss the Con. (I know, that joke’s probably been done hundreds of times).
And I agree, that’s not much time to prepare! Maybe if you find others who agree they’d like more time, together you can let the convention runners know that would be a good idea. More preparation can mean a better con!
And yeah, I don’t know what I’d do for a two-hour one-on-one writer’s workshop either. Maybe you could do some, “Try this. Try writing a page about/using (fill in the blank).” I know, you’ve probably already thought of the things I can come up with off the top of my head!
In any case, I hope it goes great!