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Digging in the Past
Feb. 17th, 2015 10:43 pmThis panel was about historical fiction, not fantasy ripping it off, but still interesting.
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Father, You Made Me
Feb. 16th, 2015 10:14 pmParent-child relationships.
Mentioned Frankenstein in the panel description, but roved over a lot of more traditional ones.
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Mentioned Frankenstein in the panel description, but roved over a lot of more traditional ones.
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Beauty and the Beast
Feb. 15th, 2015 11:11 pmAh, time to describe the panels. (I may ramble on some panels I missed for snow or dinner.)
This was, ta-da, about the fairytale type of Beauty and the Beast. With some digressions into East of the Sun, West of the Moon type. Not to mention the Loathly Lady and other unpleasant brides.
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This was, ta-da, about the fairytale type of Beauty and the Beast. With some digressions into East of the Sun, West of the Moon type. Not to mention the Loathly Lady and other unpleasant brides.
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A Literary Wonderland
Feb. 17th, 2014 08:18 pmTakes on Alice's Adventures In Wonderland.
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The Enduring Power of Fairytales
Feb. 16th, 2014 10:06 pmThe perennial fairy tales found all over the world in slightly varied form.
Do they answer to some deep need?
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Do they answer to some deep need?
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Magicians in Society
Feb. 16th, 2014 09:39 pmThe panel on magicians in society went off topic early.
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Finish It! Completing Your Work
Feb. 16th, 2014 08:21 pmThis panel covered getting yourself writing as the most crucial part of getting it done.
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Good Vs. Evil: The Great Divide
Feb. 16th, 2014 08:02 pmBack from Boskone -- where I found that wearing Order of the Stick T-shirt was a good way to get people to comment on what you wear -- and ready to discuss panels.
This was about the pure evil and the pure good found in fantasy and sometimes in SF. Particularly the older works.
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This was about the pure evil and the pure good found in fantasy and sometimes in SF. Particularly the older works.
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Some natter about what the classics are, but as one panelist pointed out, if they polled the room, there would probably be some fair consensus.
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The Spirit of the Place
Feb. 19th, 2013 10:50 pmChiefly revolving about real world places being used in fiction and how to catch it.
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A panel that opened with the lights behind the panelists flickering, giving one panelist a headache, until an audience member found by experimentation how to turn that set off. . . and then we were off on more literary approachs to the matter.
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Writing Advice: The Next Level
Feb. 19th, 2013 07:42 pmFor people who've gotten beyond "Don't quit the day job."
The irony is that one piece of advice that was cited as basic was "Read widely," but two panelists had a long session of discussing how many aspiring writers need to read widely, Read outside the genre you want to get more ideas and notions.
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The irony is that one piece of advice that was cited as basic was "Read widely," but two panelists had a long session of discussing how many aspiring writers need to read widely, Read outside the genre you want to get more ideas and notions.
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Welcome To Faerie Country
Feb. 18th, 2013 10:31 pmWhich stuck faithfully to the -- ehem, Good Folk, and their country.
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Death Becomes Her (or Him)
Feb. 18th, 2013 09:08 pmDeath personified.
One panelist thought it was only a literary technique, he couldn't take it seriously because of a childhood near death experience, where he was coming up to a black wall and knew that past it he would either know about the afterlife or be extinct,
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One panelist thought it was only a literary technique, he couldn't take it seriously because of a childhood near death experience, where he was coming up to a black wall and knew that past it he would either know about the afterlife or be extinct,
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Military Motifs in SF
Feb. 18th, 2013 07:29 pmA panel where everyone had written military SF and only one of them had not had military experience. Some were proud that readers had joined a service because they were readers.
Which is limited in its usefulness. As one panelist explained, he was in the Coast Guard, and people keep asking him about the accuracy of a film about the Coast Guard, and he doesn't know, because he was in small boats, which this film was not about.
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Which is limited in its usefulness. As one panelist explained, he was in the Coast Guard, and people keep asking him about the accuracy of a film about the Coast Guard, and he doesn't know, because he was in small boats, which this film was not about.
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