Weekend and WisCON Wrap-Up
May. 25th, 2020 06:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouseFor whatever reason, my first day at WisCON was my best day at WisCON. That's not to say that I had a bad time the rest of the weekend, more that I kind of mostly didn't participate? Or... was very random in my participation level?
I did end up having lunch withjiawen and naomikritzer, on jitsi, which was lovely, but I didn't do a lot of other con events on Saturday. In the morning, I wandered around the various Discord channels, but never really settled into any particular conversations. I listened to people discuss the merits of Clarion on the # writers-octarine, but I mostly lurked because the time for which Clarion would have been helpful for my career is kind of passed... and when I did know a lot of people still going to the workshop, there were still two of them (East and West)--so that was some time ago. I bring this up because I found most of the online conversations I dropped into to be like this? Like, people were saying interesting enough things, but I didn't manage to connect to anyone for whatever reason. The opposite was true with the hang-out. I'm swapping manuscripts with a woman I met there, already. But, this may be a function of a couple of things for me--namely, my age. I am an oldster, for the Discord crowd. But, also I am the kind of extrovert that makes face-to-face connections far easier than I do text based ones.
I didn't manage any panels until Sunday, but in all fairness that happens to me at Real Life (tm) cons, too. I guess I'm glad that I didn't end up paying the highest tier price for the con, if only because otherwise I would feel guilty that I didn't manage to do more with it. I definitely felt that what I got out of the con equaled or exceeded what I paid for, and, in my case, that wasn't nothing.
It is a little easier to wander away from the con, alas. I probably would have been busier at the con, but two weekend nights randomly became family game nights at home. I would have loved to have done a few more meet-ups, but so it goes. Part of this, for me, is figuring out what I like in an online con, too.
I still say it was well worth it, and I'm very grateful thatduskpeterson sent me a link to other online cons that are planned this year, because I am signing up for All The Cons! (For others looking for the info, it's in the comments of my first WisCON report.)
Otherwise, our Memorial Day was pretty rainy here, at least in the morning. I did do a little social distance hanging out in the backyard with a friend which was great until he got called back to work.
How about you? Do anything special for the holiday? How was YOUR WisCON, if you went?
I did end up having lunch with
jiawen and naomikritzer, on jitsi, which was lovely, but I didn't do a lot of other con events on Saturday. In the morning, I wandered around the various Discord channels, but never really settled into any particular conversations. I listened to people discuss the merits of Clarion on the # writers-octarine, but I mostly lurked because the time for which Clarion would have been helpful for my career is kind of passed... and when I did know a lot of people still going to the workshop, there were still two of them (East and West)--so that was some time ago. I bring this up because I found most of the online conversations I dropped into to be like this? Like, people were saying interesting enough things, but I didn't manage to connect to anyone for whatever reason. The opposite was true with the hang-out. I'm swapping manuscripts with a woman I met there, already. But, this may be a function of a couple of things for me--namely, my age. I am an oldster, for the Discord crowd. But, also I am the kind of extrovert that makes face-to-face connections far easier than I do text based ones.I didn't manage any panels until Sunday, but in all fairness that happens to me at Real Life (tm) cons, too. I guess I'm glad that I didn't end up paying the highest tier price for the con, if only because otherwise I would feel guilty that I didn't manage to do more with it. I definitely felt that what I got out of the con equaled or exceeded what I paid for, and, in my case, that wasn't nothing.
It is a little easier to wander away from the con, alas. I probably would have been busier at the con, but two weekend nights randomly became family game nights at home. I would have loved to have done a few more meet-ups, but so it goes. Part of this, for me, is figuring out what I like in an online con, too.
I still say it was well worth it, and I'm very grateful that
duskpeterson sent me a link to other online cons that are planned this year, because I am signing up for All The Cons! (For others looking for the info, it's in the comments of my first WisCON report.) Otherwise, our Memorial Day was pretty rainy here, at least in the morning. I did do a little social distance hanging out in the backyard with a friend which was great until he got called back to work.
How about you? Do anything special for the holiday? How was YOUR WisCON, if you went?
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Date: 2020-05-26 01:36 pm (UTC)Still, I've wanted to go to Wiscon since forever, so I'm glad I got to do that in any fashion really. Hopefully I can get there in person one day.
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Date: 2020-05-26 05:35 pm (UTC)And, it is so much fun in person. Hopefully you will be able to make it!
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Date: 2020-05-27 03:35 am (UTC)