Yikes, it's ArmadilloCon time, but still I have several vacation posts to write! I'll squeeze in one more posts before I head off to 'Dillocon writers' workshop
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I'm trying to work up the enthusiasm to go to Armadillocon, but there isn't a single panel topic on their schedule I really want to see. I don't know any of their guests, and only 5 of their 100+ "program participants". I volunteered to help out with con suite but haven't heard anything from them in weeks. (Never even got reminded the con was this weekend, it was your twitters that did that...)
It was Fade's twitter that made me respond, actually. I am right there with you not feeling enthusiasm. There is little to get enthusiastic about in ArmadilloCon, especially after you've gone there year by hear and can pretty much predict what's going to be said on all the panels. The reason I go to it is to network with writers, but that's a goal I created for myself because I searched for a reason to keep coming there. Since I write science fiction, I feel it's imperative for me to go to conventions and to understand why other people read this genre, what do they value in stories. I don't want to fall out of touch with my potential audience. So that's why I still go to ArmadilloCon, and why I come up with strategies to get value out of it. If I wasn't writing, I probably would have given up
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The thing is, the people who organize Armadillocon aren't the people who buy the latest book by Terry Pratchett, Naiomi Novik, Carrie Vaughn, Tamora Pierce, Wen Spencer, Cory Doctrow, or any other writer I _have_ bought/read something by in the past 5 years. People keep pointing me at Charles Stross. Heck, Kristin Cashore's "Graceling" was a fun read a friend picked up from a convention dealer's room for me, but it wasn't Armadillocon. (It's cool they've got Scott Lynch, but he seems kind of out of place somehow
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