Day 003 of GenCon was a very different kind of busy. I felt fried by the end.
4:50am — Well I woke up really early. After waking, I felt fried. I blame the glorious late night puppet thing. Wrote several hundred words and read a bit.
7am — I headed to a downtown meeting with a cinematographer and his newborn.
9am — Then I went to meet a father of a musician and architect about fundraising stuff.
11am — As the editors session with Diana M. Pho, Gabrielle Harbowy, Linda D. Addison, Sheree Renée Thomas. Linda we’ll be interviewing soon and Sheree Renee Thomas had the graciousness to take a photo with me soon after that. Her honesty about how all of the publishing houses are firing black editors who have aged to 55 was haunting. It angered me. And made me cry.
Gabrielle’s work was wonderful too.
12pm — A screenwriting panel with the folks who made it into the film festival. These folks confirmed my suspicions about the nepotism of that side of things, but encouraged me to cold call assistants at production houses for pitching scripts. Might go that route, we’ll see.
1pm — I grabbed a solid burger from Chomp’s and talked around with several designers.
3pm — Pitched to Morgan Wilson of Belcastro.
4pm — Quick bite again because I knew immediately afterwards, I’d be in…
5pm-9pm — STORY FUNDAMENTALS; HOW TO WRITE SHORT STORIES with award-winning author and teacher Cat Rambo. A compressed version of the six-week workshop, this single-session class gave us the tools to start writing and sending out your own stories. (Already did, but it ended up coming at it from a radically different angle than what I’m used to). We did some writing exercises in class, but most of the time we spent on lecture and discussion. A hearty store of encouragement and motivation for creating new stories. Featuring: Cat Rambo — #gcws #classroom #writing
After that, I was fried. Crashed hard again.
Corn dog costume for this guy for next year’s GenCon.
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