{"id":3791,"date":"2012-06-18T16:23:18","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T23:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.wavewithoutashore.cwgservices.org\/?p=3791"},"modified":"2012-06-18T16:23:18","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T23:23:18","slug":"jane-and-i-did-a-little-speech-for-concomcon-here-in-spokane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/jane-and-i-did-a-little-speech-for-concomcon-here-in-spokane\/","title":{"rendered":"Jane and I did a little speech for ConComCon here in Spokane&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had a little hark back to oldtime cons&#8212;the virtues of having SPACE around a panel, having far fewer panels, even at larger cons, and using some of the extra space for big roundtable discussions&#8212;interested audience with pros at tables, in direct discussion, far more up-close, a lot less like a college lecture. I&#8217;ve literally seen groups of people taking notes&#8212;sheesh! We need more up-close and a lot less view-from-distance where it comes writers meeting with readers. THat was our recommendation&#8212;at a con dedicated to people who put on cons. Some extra space to go to after cons for more extended discussion, maybe with refweshments.<br \/>\nWe also agreed we&#8217;d rather see a big airy consuite where pros can interact with fans (more tables) and less greenroom, where mostly pros meet for 5 minutes prior to the panels and get coffee and hopefully a donut in the morning. The only people you see hanging out in a green room tend to be neopros who are hoping something interesting will happen. Everybody else is grabbing food and moving out. What the heck is this with a sacred secret meeting place of pros (we see each other more than once a year) and no chance to sit and interact with fans. We&#8217;re not movie folk: we&#8217;re writers&#8212;we actually LIKE people!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had a little hark back to oldtime cons&#8212;the virtues of having SPACE around a panel, having far fewer panels, even at larger cons, and using some of the extra space for big roundtable discussions&#8212;interested audience with pros at tables, in direct discussion, far more up-close, a lot less like a college lecture. I&#8217;ve literally seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}