Michael Stackpole’s equally enlightened companions, including guest author Timothy Zahn, presented Dragon Con’s Writer’s Hourly Workshops on Saturday afternoon, Hyatt Inman. For those of you who read my first installment, excitement carried me over to the late afternoon and early evening sessions after a long morning of workshops and snack breaks. (I rationed my coffee.) Session highlights appear in vanishing… Read more →
One problem aspiring writers face is the overwhelming, and often contradictory, advice offered online. There’s no dearth of websites on writing and submitting, but how do you know which recommendations to follow? Should you remove every adjective and adverb? Use only said and no other dialogue tags? Create a social presence and gather a following before you try to sell… Read more →
Michael Stackpole and company presented the Dragon Con’s Writer’s Hourly Workshops beginning at 10AM to 6:30PM on Friday through Sunday, Hyatt Inman. More than a few brave souls, one of my best writing buddies and I included, took the plunge and sat in the first two rows for the entire series. As Stackpole said, if you sit in the front… Read more →
As the con wound down on Sunday, attendees gathered at the Hyatt to measure their badge beards. Dragon Con’s badge beards are long chains of badge ribbons affixed to the bottom of badges. There is no set length for a badge beard, and they can be as short as just one ribbon. Beards range from modest to gargantuan, with some… Read more →
The Black Geeks of Dragon Con held its 8th annual photo shoot on Sunday at 2:30PM on the back steps of the Hilton. Channing Sherman started the group after his family and friends commented about the lack of African-American interest in science fiction and associated multi-genre conventions. He began by taking photos of “Black Geeks” he met during Dragon Con,… Read more →
Sunday afternoon the Fantasy Literature track welcomed Nicoli Gonnella, JC Kang, Bryce O’Connor, Davis Ashura, and T.J. Reynolds to the Hyatt Embassy to discuss the convergence of magic and weapons in fantasy. Jay Boyce, moderator of the session, after acknowledging the prevalence magic as part of combat in Fantasy literature, began by asking the panelists to reflect upon the relationship… Read more →
Pros and aspiring puppeteers gathered for “So You Want to Be a Puppeteer…” in the Puppetry track in the Marriott, Thursday at 7PM. Raymond Daniel Carr served as moderator for the remaining panelists Sarah Frechettist, Kurt Hunter, and Kat Pleviak, with track director Beau Brown also joining. Frechettist said that she played with dolls until high school and attended the… Read more →
The Sci-Fi Literature track at Dragon Con convened a panel Sunday afternoon at 4PM in their track room (Hyatt Embassy AB) to grapple with the issue of “classics” in Science Fiction. Jean Marie Ward moderated the panel which brought Storm Humbert, Gray Rinehart, Robert J. Sawyer, Alison Tracy, and Ben Yalow together for a passionate hour of discussion and debate…. Read more →
