What I Did on My Holidays
You know, I don't write in this thing nearly as much as I should. Reading back, I'm reminded that I actually like a lot of my writing, rather than cringing away from it. It also occurs that I should write about more than just SF&F Conventions, but since I'm about to just that again, such thoughts can join the ranks of other New Year's Day idiocies
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And now I'm madly curious who the Big Name Editor and Sourcraut-Critic was...
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And the BNE&C can remain nameless here. If you search hard enough, you could probably figure it out, but I've had my grump now and that will do.
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Other people pick which sessions to go to based on who is listing as presenting or being on the panel.
I do this - it's not so much about seeing the BNAs as that there are some people (some fans, some BNAs, some writers/editors/etc who are probably not all that BN) who are interesting enough that any panel they're on will be worthwhile regardless of topic.
Conversely - I've been burned/bored enough times that if a topic interests me but I don't recognize any of the panellists - I may still go but I'll sit near the back where I can leave unobtrusively if it sucks.
I may have also surprised the odd BNA by exhibiting a lack of said squeeing on meeting themAs a firm believer in the notion that BNAs are also people, I'm sure it was either refreshing and/or unnoticeable (unless of course you were deliberately rude and snubbing in your non-squeeing but that sounds unlikely). I squee (and worse, because I'm fairly shy when interacting with new people, so the whole "make real conversation" is difficult) but I limit my squeeing to politely ( ... )
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Also Wiscon is awesome.
I've been to two of them.
I suspect you'd also like World Fantasy Con, or things like Fourth Street. But in terms of travel bang-for-buck given the effort involved in going to an NA convention from Australia, Wiscon is a good bet. And Madison is a pretty university town with interesting places to do the tourist thing nearby, and thought the Madison airport is small, Chicago (with better connections) is only 2-3 hours away.
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A strategy that I employed a number of times. Judging by the crowds at the back of the rooms, or on the edges of seats of rows, others were also thinking along the same lines. :)
One of the nice things about the academic sessions was that the vast majority were 30 minutes or less, allowing people like me to go to one I was particularly interested in and then sneak off to half of another thing.
...(unless of course you were deliberately rude and snubbing in your non-squeeing but that sounds unlikely).I really hope not! I was worried I had made the odd social misstep while at the con, but that turns out not to have been the issue I thought it may have been anyway. I would like to get to know one of the BNAs I was introduced to, but that seems unlikely, And at the time we were polite to each other but just lacking in anything ( ... )
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