MidsouthCon is coming up March 20-22. This year I’m going to be the change I want to see in the world. Each year MidsouthCon serves up substantial writing and cosplay tracks (along with tracks for art, gaming, movies, anime, music, and everything else you’d expect from the largest SFF convention in the Midsouth). More than…
Category: Conventions
SSWS 2020 Wisdom: Professionalism
Kevin J Anderson and Rebecca Moesta presented information on how to behave as a professional. I covered some of what they said on appearance elsewhere. Here’s what they have to say about how to behave to be accepted as a professional. Be happy for other people even when they get a job you wanted. Others…
SSWS 2020 – Dressing Your Brand
While I recovered from Superstars Writing Seminars 2020 (SSWS2020) this week, Kevin J. Anderson attended another conference, LTUE, and is heading to another, PensaCon. Mary Robinette Kowal is also always traveling and for several years now I’ve tried to figure out how they do this. Last year, when we attended GenCon, I figured out how…
The Last Few Precious Crumbs of SSWS 2020
Today we start our trek home. The morning began early because I volunteered to drop some of the Superstars to the Colorado Springs airport and the first person had an early flight to Tulsa. It is always a pleasure to get to know people better. Sadly, my voice is truly raw and damaged, so I’m…
SSWS Day Three Highlight: Drawing Down Dragons
Today started with an inspirational Egg Benedict Breakfast with James A. Owen. He left each of us with a quote that spoke directly into our lives. Mine said “All your choices are cumulative” which goes nicely with his other quote, “Never, ever, sacrifice what you want the most, for what you want the most at…
SSWS Day Two Highlight: Tribe
Another intense day here at Superstars. I have some sort of con crud, so between the intensity and sickness, This will be a short post. There was so much good about today. In a way today was nothing but highlights. I felt quite ill during the Understanding Amazon seminar today, so I don’t have good…
SSWS Day One Highlight: Book Signings
Once again, I am drinking from a firehouse of information from some of the best people in the industry. Since I can’t give you everything, I am giving you just a quick highlight. I’ve wondered whether it even makes sense to do a book signing. Dan Wells in a seminar on Book Signings said that…
SSWS Craft Day Highlight: Writing Fight Scenes
Too much to summarize here at SuperStars Writing Seminar, so I’m just going to pick the one thing that really helped me each day. I attended two Craft Day sessions and they were both phenomenal: Writing Fight Scenes with Jonathan Maberry; and Building Worlds and Characters with Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca Moesta. Both were…
Love and Superstars Prep
The heart does not recognize boundaries on a map, or wars, or political policies. The heart does as the heart does. –Delenn in Babylon 5 by J. Michael Straczynski That’s the quote I was thinking of when I said “love is all the same, isn’t it?” And in a way, love is all the same….
Superstars: A Generosity Culture
We think of cultural diversity and division as something that happens between geographic or ethnic groups, but that’s a small part of the truth. The reality is that we need to deal with culture conflict every single day. Steve and I spent quite a bit of time yesterday talking about the differing cultures we’ve been…