Anticipation (WorldCon 09) final-pending-disaster schedule

[lagilman]

Herewith, my WorldCon schedule
(note that many items are 90 minutes, not 60, and adjust your planning accordingly)

Thu, 12:30pm
Bio-Ethics
Alison Sinclair, Judy T. Lazar, Laura Anne Gilman, Russell Blackford, Tomoko Masuda
Medical experiments, drug companies, cloning, insurance, bookies and you.
(I'm moderating this one, so anyone who wants to send in questions/ideas, please to do so!)

Fri, 11:00
Writing Workshop L
Session ID: 680
Laura Anne Gilman, Margaret Ronald
Two-hour critique session for previously submitted manuscripts


Fri 14:00
Sci-Ku -- SF Haiku
Laura Anne Gilman, Mary Turzillo, Trisha Wooldridge, Michelle Wexelblat
Sci-Kus are haikus based on science fiction, from PopSci.com. Usually they start with a stock photo as inspiration. Try your own hand at 17 syllables of fun.
(Kid's programming. I'm moderating this one, too -- we're going to be expanding the activity well beyond their description, oh yes, based on the success of this panel at Arisia. Come prepared to participate!)


Fri 15:30
Preparing to Write a Series
Fiona Patton, Joe Haldeman, Joshua Palmatier, Laura Anne Gilman, M. D. Benoit, Mindy Klasky, George R. R. Martin
How does a writer plan to write a series? Or is it unplanned until you sign the contract? Writers discuss how they set up and wrote novels that are part of a series.
(this is gonna be entertaining, I can tell you that already. Oh yeah)

Fri 19:00
Writing Across Boundaries: Writers that Shift Boundaries
Bob Neilson, julie c andrijeski, Laura Anne Gilman, Melinda Snodgrass
What do you do differently as you shift from one type of story to another, from genre to genre, from medium to medium? What do different modes of story require in the planning?
(this is another one that I think is going to be really interesting...and very useful to a lot of folk, based on the number of times I get asked 'how do you DO it?')


Sat 11:30
Laura Anne Gilman Signing
(my plan is to raffle off an ARC of FLESH AND FIRE among people who come by...)


Sun 12:30
Author Reading
Session ID: 234
Laura Anne Gilman, Margaret Ronald, Seanan McGuire, Stephanie Bedwell-Grime
(apparently we each get 20 minutes. Don't be late!)


Sun 17:00
kaffeklatschLaura Anne Gilman
A chance to ask those burning questions -- or, y'know, just shoot the breeze.


My Friday is insane, but the rest of the weekend looks quite manageable, yay. I will have a chance to get out of the convention center! (or, y'know, get some work done. Yeah...)

Comments

[havocthecat]

Okay, they all look interesting, but "Preparing to Write a Series" looks to be a whole lot of interesting. Well. In the "I would be vastly amused just watching the panelists have free rein" sort of sense. :)

[shana.livejournal.com]

I will have to point out the bioethics panel to my brother the philosopher...

Yay on getting out of the Convention center! Montreal has LOTS of good restaurants.