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· Philcon [+1]
· I don't live in Kansas
· Viva La Résistance!
· Writing about Politics in Speculative Fiction
· Tourists
· The Moral Aesthetics of Steampunk
· Urbane Fantasy
· Green Tree, Blue Tree, Who Gives a Frack? Is it Real Worldbuilding or Simply Changing the Names?
· Consistent Magic Systems in Fantasy
· looking over webcomics
· Creating Gods
· Renovation [+7]
· The use of history
· A Fate Worse than Death
· No Childhood Left Behind
· Authorial Intent - an Afterthought
· Are We Not Men?
· Authorial intent--threat or menace? [+2]
· Plausible Miracles and Eucatastrophe
· Bad Writing
· There's No Homelike Place
· The (Re)turn of the Screw
· Readercon [+4]
· Steal the Past, Build the Future
· the grim reaper in fiction
· ripping off history for fun and profit
· a range of worlds
· Rocking the Cradle
· Let's all Fight, Portraying Hand to Hand Combat in Fantasy and Science Fiction Settings
· the bright lights of the magical city
· worldcon: September 2nd - 6th, 2010 [+8]
· Agonistes and Agony -- or how rough should his life be anyway
· Panel: No Publisher? No Problem! [+7]
· neither flesh nor fowl nor good red herring
· I don't know about that
· on frying pans and fires
· anyone feeling mythic? [+4]
· The Mail Order Firm in Schenectady
· Why is Fantasy Displacing SF?
· Fantastic Settings
· How Many Magicians?
· Boskone is Feb 12-14
· Progress reports
· ambiguity
·  the aesthetics of monarchy
· Wholly Human
· world fantasy convention is coming [+6]
· Bringing the Gods on Stage
· The Peter Parker
· Cursing, cussingh, swearing and oaths
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15th-Nov-2011 06:40 pm - Philcon
A Birthday
[info]marycatelli
is this weekend -- November 18-20.

Anyone feeling bitter?
5th-Sep-2011 10:38 am - I don't live in Kansas
writing tools
[info]green_knight
In response to [info]aliettedb's excellent post I started to reply to a comment, and it got overly long, so I posted it on my own journal. This wasn't a con topic anywhere that I'm aware of recently, but 'writing the Other' is never not relevant IMHO.
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4th-Sep-2011 01:31 pm - Viva La Résistance!
Tsirtn
[info]attackfish
Revolutions in SF, Fantasy, and the Real World
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3rd-Sep-2011 12:09 am - Writing about Politics in Speculative Fiction
Tsirtn
[info]attackfish
Made Up Places and the Things They Get Up To
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2nd-Sep-2011 09:20 am - Tourists
Tsirtn
[info]attackfish
Creating Characters and Stories in an Existing World
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1st-Sep-2011 07:10 am - The Moral Aesthetics of Steampunk
Tsirtn
[info]attackfish
Keep in mind, Steampunk is really cool...
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20th-Aug-2011 11:39 am - Urbane Fantasy
A Birthday
[info]marycatelli
the use of manners in fantasy.
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20th-Aug-2011 12:09 am - Green Tree, Blue Tree, Who Gives a Frack? Is it Real Worldbuilding or Simply Changing the Names?
Strawberries
[info]marycatelli
Worldbuilding
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18th-Aug-2011 11:58 pm - Consistent Magic Systems in Fantasy
Rapunzel
[info]marycatelli
On magic systems.  Here.
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18th-Aug-2011 07:20 am - looking over webcomics
Reading Desk
[info]marycatelli
It's traditional to claim it's about neglected and overlooked, but there being no standard for that:

Looking over webcomics, to recommend good ones.
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17th-Aug-2011 07:05 pm - Creating Gods
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[info]marycatelli
Worldcon is starting and so are we.

Creating Gods.
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13th-Aug-2011 03:32 pm - Renovation
A Birthday
[info]marycatelli
August 17-21.

Anyone feeling bitter?

Or inspired by this?

21st-Jul-2011 11:00 pm - The use of history
Bellver
[info]green_knight
Inspired by this article by [info]la_marquise_de_, I've written a short comment on cultural appropriation here.

http://green-knight.livejournal.com/918806.html

This wasn't part of any recent convention programming that I'm aware of, but [info]la_marquise_de_ - a trained historian - hits the nail on the head and creates good discussion, so I felt it would fit here.
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20th-Jul-2011 09:39 pm - A Fate Worse than Death
Tsirtn
[info]attackfish
Narrative Treatment of Permanent Physical Harm
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19th-Jul-2011 02:17 pm - No Childhood Left Behind
Tsirtn
[info]attackfish
Different canons of children's literature and the broadening of collective experience
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21st-Jul-2011 11:55 am - Authorial Intent - an Afterthought
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[info]green_knight
More thoughts on authorial intent - who is the author, anyway?

(Reposted since LJ appears to have locked the post. I mean, I didn't.)
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18th-Jul-2011 09:49 am - Are We Not Men?
Tsirtn
[info]attackfish
Human Women and Beast-Men in Paranormal Romance
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17th-Jul-2011 06:40 am - Authorial intent--threat or menace?
Fan
[info]sartorias
Notes from another panel, actually.
16th-Jul-2011 02:56 pm - Plausible Miracles and Eucatastrophe
A Birthday
[info]marycatelli
Happy endings, surprising endings, and setup.
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16th-Jul-2011 09:03 am - Bad Writing
Fan
[info]sartorias
Why we love bad writing.
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15th-Jul-2011 08:02 pm - There's No Homelike Place
A Birthday
[info]marycatelli
Why characters always seem to settle down in the end.
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14th-Jul-2011 07:22 pm - The (Re)turn of the Screw
A Birthday
[info]marycatelli
Readercon is starting.  So we can, too.

Ambiguity, and what exactly is happening in a story.
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9th-Jul-2011 04:50 pm - Readercon
A Birthday
[info]marycatelli
Sherwood pointed out the list of Readercon topics over at [info]sartorias and some people discussed the possibility of a bittercon. . . but that's only feasible if people are willing to host topics. . .

July 14-17
7th-Sep-2010 11:55 am - Steal the Past, Build the Future
Tsirtn
[info]attackfish
Discussion of Idealized portrayals in historically based Fantasy and the use of history in Contemporary Urban Fantasy here
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6th-Sep-2010 07:50 pm - the grim reaper in fiction
A Birthday
[info]marycatelli
There's nothing quite like death in a story to set the tone.

Discussion here.
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5th-Sep-2010 03:19 pm - ripping off history for fun and profit
A Birthday
[info]marycatelli
Discussion here.
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4th-Sep-2010 05:32 pm - a range of worlds
A Birthday
[info]marycatelli
The possibilities in world-building here.
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4th-Sep-2010 12:49 pm - Rocking the Cradle
Tsirtn
[info]attackfish
Discussion of Motherhood in Science-Fiction and Fantasy here
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3rd-Sep-2010 08:44 am - Let's all Fight, Portraying Hand to Hand Combat in Fantasy and Science Fiction Settings
Tsirtn
[info]attackfish
Discussion of blood and guts here
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2nd-Sep-2010 04:16 pm - the bright lights of the magical city
A Birthday
[info]marycatelli
Discussion on the fantasy city here.
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31st-Aug-2010 06:23 pm - worldcon: September 2nd - 6th, 2010
A Birthday
[info]marycatelli
Anyone bitter?

Anyone bitter enough to host topics?

Updated: Found this for anyone who wants to steal an actual Worldcon topic.
11th-Jul-2010 12:01 am - Agonistes and Agony -- or how rough should his life be anyway
A Birthday
[info]marycatelli
Suffering and our characters.
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10th-Jul-2010 01:34 pm - Panel: No Publisher? No Problem!
tiny chipmunk
[info]cinda_cite
this one--would i be a fly on the wall for this one at mythcon. or maybe a chipmunk scampering on the floor. Are there chipmunks in Dallas?
9th-Jul-2010 06:08 pm - neither flesh nor fowl nor good red herring
A Birthday
[info]marycatelli
Call it a Mythcon panel. . . .

Liminality.
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9th-Jul-2010 03:21 pm - I don't know about that
A Birthday
[info]marycatelli
Unambiguously, a discussion of ambiguity in fiction.
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8th-Jul-2010 07:38 pm - on frying pans and fires
A Birthday
[info]marycatelli
Well, Readercon started, so I stole an idea from there.

Discussion of danger and comfort and where you start.
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27th-Jun-2010 11:09 pm - anyone feeling mythic?
A Birthday
[info]marycatelli
Mythcon July 9-12, 2010

Anyone else interested in doing some bittercon?

Their schedule here (warning:  PDF) if anyone's interested in theft.

Update:  And Readercon is the 8th-12th!  Well, here's its program guide for theft.
14th-Feb-2010 12:24 am - The Mail Order Firm in Schenectady
A Birthday
[info]marycatelli
Ideas, and how they become stories.

Discussion here.
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13th-Feb-2010 08:25 am - Why is Fantasy Displacing SF?
Fan
[info]sartorias
Discussion here.
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13th-Feb-2010 12:07 am - Fantastic Settings
A Birthday
[info]marycatelli
The forest, the Arcadian countryside, the city, the mountains -- the settings of fantasy.

Discussion here.
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12th-Feb-2010 12:09 am - How Many Magicians?
A Birthday
[info]marycatelli
Magic -- no matter what form you use, it matters how much of it is floating about your world.

Discussion here.
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8th-Feb-2010 08:30 pm - Boskone is Feb 12-14
A Birthday
[info]marycatelli
Which means, of course, that so is bittercon.  Ready your topic, prepare to post your comments, mark it off on the calendar. . . .
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1st-Nov-2009 10:22 pm - Progress reports
dry inkwell
[info]green_knight
[info]sartorias, in her post about WFC listed a number of intrigueing topics. The one that caught my eye was

Writers' processes, and how to talk about that on line (why sometimes it's boring, sometimes downright irritating, and when fascinating)

With the beginning of Nano- and writing-related posts all over the place that seems to be a good time to gauge reader reactions to writers' progress reports.

(link here [includes a poll])
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1st-Nov-2009 11:20 am - ambiguity
A Birthday
[info]marycatelli
The use of ambiguity in magic.

Discussion here.
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31st-Oct-2009 12:49 am - the aesthetics of monarchy
A Birthday
[info]marycatelli

What are the advantages of monarcy for a plot?

Discussion here.
 

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30th-Oct-2009 11:02 am - Wholly Human
A Birthday
[info]marycatelli
Kicking things off:

Elves, vampires, werewolves -- or not.

Discussion here.

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27th-Oct-2009 11:19 pm - world fantasy convention is coming
A Birthday
[info]marycatelli
Anyone interested in bitterconning?
9th-Aug-2009 09:06 pm - Bringing the Gods on Stage
A Birthday
[info]marycatelli
Having the gods make appearances in fantasy -- and what it entails.
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9th-Aug-2009 10:41 am - The Peter Parker
Ink Drinker, books
[info]burger_eater
Peter Parker (aka Spider-man) as a hero archetype, and how he contrasts with other archetypes.
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9th-Aug-2009 07:00 am - Cursing, cussingh, swearing and oaths
Fan
[info]sartorias
discussion here!
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