{"id":5052,"date":"2010-06-11T19:23:27","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T00:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=5052"},"modified":"2010-06-11T19:23:27","modified_gmt":"2010-06-12T00:23:27","slug":"on-shore-leave-anticipation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=5052","title":{"rendered":"On Shore Leave Anticipation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shore Leave<\/a> is coming up. The second weekend in July — the 9th through the 11th.<\/p>\n

Guests this year include Edward James Olmos and Katee Sackhoff.<\/p>\n

If you’re in the Baltimore area in mid-July and you’re looking for a convention, Shore Leave’s worth your time.<\/p>\n

I bring up Shore Leave because yesterday I received an e-mail about programming for the convention. In short, they’re looking for ideas. I’ve been spitballing a few ideas in my head.<\/p>\n

One thing I’m thinking of pitching:<\/p>\n

Writing Fiction at Stupidly Short Lengths<\/b>
\nLearn about Twitterfics, Drabbles, and Flash Fiction as writers talk about creating stories at super-short lengths that make conventional stories look like <\/i>War and Peace by comparison. Discover the appeal of the super-short form, uncover the techniques writers use to conceptualize and create at that length, and try your hand at your own super-short story!<\/i><\/p>\n

I write marketing copy on a daily basis, can’t you tell?<\/p>\n

As I mentioned in yesterday’s posting, I like writing drabbles<\/a>, which are stories of precisely 100 words. I’ve not tried a Twitterfic yet, which would be a story in 140 characters, the length of a tweet. Running a panel on the topic struck me this morning as something that’s potentially fun and different. And I’m all about the fun and the different.<\/p>\n

I’m also thinking of pitching a Merlin<\/i> panel, though I haven’t come up with a catchy name for it. I do, however, have a catchy name for the standard Doctor Who<\/i> panel — “The Eleventh Doctor’s The Charm!”<\/p>\n

I’ll come up with some other ideas over the weekend.<\/p>\n

Shore Leave. It’s a month away. I can’t wait!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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