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pameladean ([personal profile] pameladean) wrote2016-03-14 11:06 pm
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My Vericon Schedule

I'll be a guest at Vericon (http://www.vericon.org/) this coming weekend. The Guest of Honor is Ann Leckie and I am very much looking forward to meeting her. But the whole lineup of guests is really amazing, to the point where I wonder what I am doing in it.

Here is the schedule. Are these not entirely awesome panelists and topics?

PAMELA DEAN'S SCHEDULE

Friday:
7-8 PM: Writing Fast and Slow
"There are nine and sixty ways of creating tribal lays, and every single one of them is right!" If you look at writing advice books you'd think there was only one true way to do it, but here we have a panel whose writing methods are extremely different from each other.
Greer Gilman, Pamela Dean, Wesley Chu. Moderator: Jo Walton

8-9 PM: Fantasy Worlds that Feel Real
Worlds are complex and fascinating -- how do you integrate the fantastic with imagined history, culture, economics, religion, folklore, and everything else to come up with a world that feels solid and magical at the same time?
Fran Wilde, Pamela Dean, Greer Gilman. Moderator: Seth Dickinson

Saturday:
2:30-3 PM: Book Signing

3:30-4 Reading

4-5 PM: Metaphysics
How do we write about realities that function really differently? When it rains on you when you lie, or when you can't understand what doubt is?
Ada Palmer, Pamela Dean. John Chu. Moderator: Jo Walton

5-6 PM: What can we learn from Shakespeare?
Language, pacing, worldbuilding -- Shakespeare has it all. But Shakespeare is so great, can we find our own ways to be influenced by him and not get swallowed up?
Jo Walton, Pamela Dean, Greer Gilman. Moderator: Ada Palmer

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Pamela

[identity profile] minnehaha.livejournal.com 2016-03-15 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
This is apparently about a 10 minute walk from our place. And you mention it now, when we have made these other plans and will be in Minneapolis. Oh, fie.

K. [needs a Cambridge icon]

[identity profile] minnehaha.livejournal.com 2016-03-16 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
We need to be told things directly, because busy.

K. [and he doesn't read LJ any more]
ext_73228: Headshot of Geri Sullivan, cropped from Ultraman Hugo pix (Geri 2014)

[identity profile] gerisullivan.livejournal.com 2016-03-18 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
More like 3-4 minutes. It's at the Harvard SOCH at 59 Shepard Street. 2.5 blocks, two-tenths of a mile!

[identity profile] mrissa.livejournal.com 2016-03-15 01:53 pm (UTC)(link)
This looks so lovely. You will have an excellent time.

[identity profile] rj-anderson.livejournal.com 2016-03-15 02:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, to be a fly on that Massachusetts wall! The panels all sound fantastic and I'm sure you will have a brilliant time (and yes, you DO belong there!).

[identity profile] rj-anderson.livejournal.com 2016-03-17 02:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I have been eyeing various cons this year, wondering if it would be inspirational (or just plain fun) to go to one. There are just so many, though and it's so hard to know which one(s) would be a good fit! I adored MythCon when I went a couple of years ago, but it's once again at an impossible time and too-far-away location for me...

[identity profile] inlaterdays.livejournal.com 2016-03-15 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Have a wonderful time! Wish I could go and hear what you have to say.

[identity profile] clindau.livejournal.com 2016-03-15 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
That second discussion on Saturday looks absolutely wonderful.

[identity profile] txanne.livejournal.com 2016-03-16 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
Vericon is my 4th St methadone. I'm very excited about seeing you!

[identity profile] seekerval.livejournal.com 2016-03-16 03:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Have a hugely brilliant and harmonious FUN TIME!
aedifica: Me looking down at laptop (off screen).  Short hair. (Summer 2010)

[personal profile] aedifica 2016-03-17 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I am looking forward to seeing you there!
ext_73228: Headshot of Geri Sullivan, cropped from Ultraman Hugo pix (Geri 2014)

[identity profile] gerisullivan.livejournal.com 2016-03-18 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
Looking forward to seeing you, and to your program items!