Writercon highlights
Aug. 4th, 2009 09:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwynnegaSome highlights of Writercon:
There were many wonderful panels and presentations, includingredeem147's Bollywood 101, general_jinjur's podfic presentation, and Kristina Busse's celebration of fannish tropes. I had a marvelous time moderating the Making Old Monsters New Again panel, during which harmonyfb, Debra Doyle, inkandchocolate and I, along with pretty much the entire room, enthusiastically discussed vampires and zombies and ghosts etc. etc. (And I got to talk about Dark Shadows, hooray!)
Speaking of soaps, I got to talk withnwhepcat and 10zlaine and willowgreen about Ryan's Hope, and rant with 10zlaine and callmesandy about GH! (I think 10zlaine and I spent pretty much the whole cocktail party talking about soaps...)
My favorite restaurant of the weekend was Hell's Kitchen, where I had breakfast a couple of times. I think I will be longing for those pancakes until I get back to Minneapolis. Also the hotel restaurant, Fire Lake, was awesome, and we ate there many times. Strangely I did not gain weight this weekend, which seems impossible. In general the hotel was by far the best we've had for Writercon, and rivals only the Concourse for my favorite con hotel.
It was so wonderful to see old friends and to talk with new ones. Big thanks to the concom for putting together such a lively and inspiring convention.
There were many wonderful panels and presentations, including
redeem147's Bollywood 101, general_jinjur's podfic presentation, and Kristina Busse's celebration of fannish tropes. I had a marvelous time moderating the Making Old Monsters New Again panel, during which harmonyfb, Debra Doyle, inkandchocolate and I, along with pretty much the entire room, enthusiastically discussed vampires and zombies and ghosts etc. etc. (And I got to talk about Dark Shadows, hooray!)Speaking of soaps, I got to talk with
nwhepcat and 10zlaine and willowgreen about Ryan's Hope, and rant with 10zlaine and callmesandy about GH! (I think 10zlaine and I spent pretty much the whole cocktail party talking about soaps...)My favorite restaurant of the weekend was Hell's Kitchen, where I had breakfast a couple of times. I think I will be longing for those pancakes until I get back to Minneapolis. Also the hotel restaurant, Fire Lake, was awesome, and we ate there many times. Strangely I did not gain weight this weekend, which seems impossible. In general the hotel was by far the best we've had for Writercon, and rivals only the Concourse for my favorite con hotel.
It was so wonderful to see old friends and to talk with new ones. Big thanks to the concom for putting together such a lively and inspiring convention.
