Because I’ll be there this weekend. Come say hi if you’ll be in the area.
Saturday 23rd
| 11:00 AM | Writing Diverse Characters: Archetypes vs. Stereotypes | Derby |
| Jennifer R Povey (M), Day Al-Mohamed, Stephanie Burke, Sunny Moraine, Don Sakers, Melissa Scott | (50 minutes) | |
| A panel on handling diversity in fiction for less experienced writers, dealing with things like avoiding tokenism, learning confidence in presenting ‘different’ characters. |
| 5:00 PM | Treading Lightly: Writing Troublesome Things | Derby |
| Maria V Snyder (M), Paul E. Cooley, Tom Doyle, Kelly A Harmon, Sunny Moraine | (50 minutes) | |
| While a bad thing may not be happening to your character at the time, the world isn’t a happy place. Join a discussion on how writers approach the big topics that are potential minefields (crime, war, tragic events, medical issues, politics, religion, etc.) |
| 10:00 PM | Diversity in Popular Culture: Fad or New Normal? | Salon B |
| Jean Marie Ward (M), Day Al-Mohamed, Stephanie Burke, William Galaini, Sunny Moraine | (50 minutes) | |
| Diversity and representation has been a hot topic in SF/F literature, gaming, and other parts of fandom and popular culture over the past few years. Is this a phase or a watershed moment in the broader pop culture landscape? What role can individual readers, writers, and fans play in this discussion? |
Sunday 24th
| 8:00 PM | Point of View and Narrator Swapping | Chase |
| Maria V Snyder (M), Meriah Crawford, Christie Meierz, Sunny Moraine | (50 minutes) | |
| What effect does who’s telling the story have? Can you switch it around and still have the reader follow? |
| 11:00 PM | Confess Your Writer’s Sins | Derby |
| Sunny Moraine (M), Sue Baiman, James Daniel Ross, Jay Smith, Alex White | (50 minutes) | |
| What have you done in your writing that truly shames you? What do you look back at and cringe? What lessons have you learned from screwing up as badly as you have? Tell all and cleanse your writerly soul. |
Especially looking forward to the writer’s sins one, I proposed it because I believe in healing.
Also embarrassment.
A Trick of Light 