Preliminary NorEasCon Schedule

July 27th 2004 at 10:50 am

The preliminary schedule came through for this year’s worldcon. Looks interesting. I have to contact the registrar’s office at Bluffton and double check to make sure there isn’t a class on Friday that I have to teach. There are some items on Monday that are on here that I have cut off, as I’ll have to email programming back to say that, unlike when I filled out my form, I am now no longer able to make Monday programming…

Friday 12:00 noonKaffeeklatsch
Tobias Buckell
Wen Spencer
Jeff VanderMeer
Robert Charles Wilson

Saturday10:00am Reading (0.5 hrs)
Tobias Buckell

Sunday 11:00am Personnel Problems of Extraterrestrials in Earth Industry
Tobias Buckell
Craig Gardner
Laura Anne Gilman
Steven Popkes
Karen Traviss
From Clevention (1955)
Proper hygiene for food workers with tentacles? (”Must wash hands,
tentacles, pseudopods….”)? Safety glasses fo the many-eyed? Salary
compensation for hive beings? And then there’s romance in the
workplace…..oh, my! And how will the Americans with Disabilities
laws apply??

Sunday 1:00pm Writers’ Blocks
K. A. Bedford
Patricia Bray
Tobias Buckell
Stephen P. Kelner
Susanna J. Sturgis
All about Writer’s Block: writer’s block is a simple concept, that
the writer is stuck. Getting past it, though, can be less simple–
there are lots of different possible causes–stress at work or at
home, a story that the plot is getting stuck on, characters that the
writer is getting bored with, etc. The ways to address writers’
block differ, too. Some people talk a long walk, some garden, some
go shopping, some go on-line, some work on a different story, some
read a favorite book. There’s no one cure — but different writers
have different strategies, or sets of strategies, and those can work
for other people, too. Working through Blockages: What techniques
can writers use when they hit problems with the plot, the setting,
and the characters? How can a writer persuade a character to “tell”
them what’s bothering the character, or why the character won’t
cross that river the writer thinks the character needs to cross,
what does a writer do after having gathered the armies to have a
war, and the characters are so unobliging as to refuse to fight? How
do writers write themselves out of boxes? And what other things can
a writer do when stuck, besides cat vacuuming?

Sunday 4:00pm This Book Sucks: How and How Not To Write Reviews
Tobias Buckell
Thomas A. Easton
Scott Edelman
Janice M. Eisen
Steven Sawicki
What makes a good book review or a good critical piece? What kinds
of things should book reviewers do? What kinds of behaviors should
they avoid?

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