Dispatches from GenCon: God, Guns and Tentacles
Today was the day of uncomfortable sessions. Two were uncomfortable because the room was packed to beyond full, Jim Butcher it seems has a lot of fans in the gaming world. Those sessions were fine, but a little bit warm and not as interactive as some of the others due to the size of the people.
The others were uncomfortable in other ways: long digressions into guns, a fascinatingly odd discussion of religion in Urban Fantasy, and some of the panelists digressing into the strangest things. (Tentacles were discussed, but I am not saying anything else to protect the reputations of those involved. Needless to say it was an early morning session and more coffee could have helped, or maybe less.)
I intend to post a more blow-by-blow post soon. Though, I can tell you this: I am re-energized as an author, both inspired and feeling like there are some new and interesting tools in my writing toolbox.
Though, I have to say I will kind of miss being part of a community where a filk band, a.k.a. a sci-fi folk music band (no I am not kidding), can play while someone dressed as the joker from The Dark Knight dances a jig is just another piece of the background and does not attract a crowd of any sort. Though, I won’t miss walking out of a session with my mind full of great writing ideas and have to hear yet another verse of “Characters Who Died” (sung to the tune of “People Who Died” by The Jim Carroll Band).
Luke W. McCullough
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