Good afternoon, squiders. Hard to believe it’s November already, isn’t it? Let’s catch up.
Saturday and Sunday we did get a foot of snow, but driving home from the con Saturday afternoon was the only bad time (though admittedly it was quite bad), and I was half an hour late on Saturday morning because someone had flipped their car in the middle of the interchange. But Saturday went well–I had quite a few people come by while I was at the co-op table who’d gone to the indie publishing panel the night before (and a handful from the twists panel), and the -punk panel midday went well too, and then I had some people come by and want to talk about that while I was at the autograph table in the afternoon.
Friday and Saturday felt really nice from a “I know what I’m talking about and people respect me” standpoint. Bit exhausting–definitely more socialization than I’m used to–but definitely good overall.
Sunday was the dreaded living in space panel, which was supposed to be four panelists (including Mary Robinette Kowal) and a moderator, but ended up just being Ms. Kowal, me, and the moderator. Maybe everyone else saw the snow and gave up, I don’t know. It went decently–having that aerospace engineering degree tends to be useful for science fiction concepts–but it definitely felt a little weird.
I also had to bring the small, mobile ones with me on Sunday, so between the living in space panel (10 am) and the Nanowrimo panel (3 pm) we hung out in the board game area and played Machi Koro 2 and Tea Dragons. Also I made the mistake of letting them in the vendor room. Ahaha.
For Nano, as I said last week, I did sign up with my revision. I’m at about 5K as of yesterday (I’ll work today later), so it almost feels like cheating. I mean, this current chapter has been a bit of a mess so I’ve been doing a lot of streamlining and reworking (and also going back through and making sure things are making sense) but the fact that I’m following the old draft is making it feel easy. We’ll see if it stands up over time.
Other sundry. Uh. Part 6 of Across Worlds with You is up over at Turtleduck Press.
I finally got one of my SkillShare classes back up–the Tracking Writing Ideas one (and I just noticed I put the wrong cover image, so that’s fun. I’d better fix that) and nobody has yelled at me about it, so huzzah. It’s here.
That’s it for sundries for now! See you next week, squiders!
