{"id":2438,"date":"2009-07-12T09:14:45","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T14:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=2438"},"modified":"2009-07-12T09:14:45","modified_gmt":"2009-07-12T14:14:45","slug":"on-shore-leave-2009-day-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2438","title":{"rendered":"On Shore Leave 2009, Day Three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shore-leave.com\/\">Shore Leave<\/a> comes to its annual end.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, alack, and many alarums.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a jam-packed Sunday.  What do I have on tap?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Writing To Music: The Muse That Inspires<\/b> &mdash; Hunt, 11am to Noon<br \/>Some people write to music.  I&#8217;m one of those people.  What does music do for a writer?  Can it put a writer into a mood?  Can it inspire scenes, emotional movements, characters?  Panelists include Bill Leisner, Keith DeCandido, Dave Mack, Jim Johnson, Greg Cox, and Scott Pearson.<\/li>\n<li><b>A Year Without the Doctor?<\/b> &mdash; Salon E, 3pm to 4pm.<br \/>Honestly, I prefer my original title for this panel, but that&#8217;s neither here nor there.  This year, 2009, <i>Doctor Who<\/i> is in its &#8220;gap year.&#8221;  We had &#8220;Planet of the Dead&#8221; at Easter, and it&#8217;s a fair few months until &#8220;The Waters of Mars.&#8221;  How are fans coping?  Where are they getting their <i>Who<\/i> fix?  Other panelists include John S. Drew, Steve Mollmann, Terri Osborne, and Aaron Rosenberg.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And with that, my weekend at Shore Leave will be done.  I&#8217;ll still attend <i>Mystery Trekkie Theatre<\/i> at 5 o&#8217;clock; that&#8217;s a Shore Leave tradition, and I couldn&#8217;t skip that.  (I did a few years ago, but I had to haul ass back to Raleigh to work the next day.)<\/p>\n<p>Other things I might do on the Shore Leave Sunday?<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a block of interesting panels at 10 o&#8217;clock.  Obviously, I can&#8217;t attend <i>all<\/i> of them.  So I&#8217;ll probably end up attending none. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>At noon, there&#8217;s a panel on <i>Twilight<\/i> in Salon F.  Having zero interest in the books (or the films), I couldn&#8217;t be arsed to attend this, even if someone <i>paid<\/i> me.   There&#8217;s also a panel on the Cassini mission to Saturn in the Tack Room.  Hmm, I&#8217;m actually intrigued by this.  I generally don&#8217;t do the science programming at conventions.  I went to a panel on the Singularity at Farpoint, and I was bored into a stupor by the Powerpoint presentation (because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=999\">Powerpoint induces brain clouds as a general rule<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>At one o&#8217;clock, if <i>Star Trek<\/i> literature is your bag, there&#8217;s a panel on the state of the <i>Star Trek<\/i> universe post-<i>Destiny<\/i> in the Hunt room.  If the history of NASA is your interest, there&#8217;s a presentation on that in the Tack room.<\/p>\n<p>And with that, I&#8217;ll draw this series of posts on Shore Leave to a close.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s possible that I&#8217;ll write a post on the comings and doings of the weekend.  Or not.<\/p>\n<p>I do, however, have two more episodes of <i>Torchwood<\/i> to watch and review.  But that can wait until the morrow. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And today, Shore Leave comes to its annual end. Alas, alack, and many alarums. It&#8217;s a jam-packed Sunday. What do I have on tap? Writing To Music: The Muse That Inspires &mdash; Hunt, 11am to NoonSome people write to music. I&#8217;m one of those people. What does music do for a writer? 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