BristolCon 2014

We usually just find each other! I found Glitch and Ursa sitting in on a panel last year and just sat with them. I think the year before that I met Ursa in the dealer room and I bumped into TJ one year coming out of a panel. My badge'll say Em.
 
I have no idea what my badge will say: the acknowledgement of payment doesn't say. (That'll teach me for booking so far in advance.)

I've looked down the current list of attendees and I don't think I'm 'Square Bear', but I may be. If I'm not, I may be 'Paul'. But Glitch and Mouse know what I look like, and BristolCon isn't a huge event.
 
Well, my badge might not say "Em" either. My name tends to confuse people and last year they had to write me one with my full name on because nobody understood that "Em" began with an E (and therefore couldn't find the one they'd printed, so had to write a new one).
 
There is an Em on the list. If it isn't you, I'll just have to adapt....



;)​
 
So, BristolCon happened yesterday! I got two free books and my face in the back of the programme. :D It was busier this year, I fancy. Was good to meet up with Ursa and Glitch again, and I met Boneman. Though I missed Serendipity. Me and the boys went out for a yummy pub lunch at the Hole in the Wall (thanks for the orange juice, Boneman!) and spent quite a lot of the con wandering round and sitting in on the panels together.

I turned up quite late (11.30 - I was in Bristol at 11, but the bus took half an hour to get to the hotel), so missed most of the Writing Problems panel - it was very busy in there so I had to squeeze in at the back and only caught the last couple of questions. I then stayed for the panels on interactions and influences (I think the gang went off to the historical fantasy one). Then lunch. Then back in time for 'sex or death,' which was interesting. I stayed for Emma Newman's interview and reading, and then I had to scoot off to catch my bus again.
 
Well, Great Western got me there on time, but we won't speak about the return journey. I did meet the usual suspects who were there - not met Ursa and Mouse and Serendipity in the flesh before, which was good, and Glitch I'd met up with in Brighton last year, so it was good to see friendly faces and chinwag about things. (Sorry I didn't say goodbye, Mouse - was trying to catch Emma Newman's eye, and wandered off.) Hope you all got home okay! Ian Whaites breezed by and said hello, and I didn't find him after that.

Best comment of the day was by a panellist who was talking about 'show don't tell' and quoted Stephen King, saying this of infodumping, and how not to overdo it: "Description should start with the writer and end with the reader."

Criticism: programme 1 was divided from the bar by a temporary wall, and the alcohol and jollity on the other sied made it almost impossible to hear panellists who wouldn't sit close enough to the microphone.

But very glad I went!
 
I was sorry I couldn't join you for lunch, but had promised to help out elsewhere... but it was lovely to meet Boneman, Ursa Major and Glitch (I still owe you a drink Glitch). I can now put faces to some of the names here.

Next year's Bristolcon is Saturday September 26th and I will make a point of keeping my lunchtime free for you lovely people.
 
It was a good day. Made some notes from the various panels, which seem hard to read the following day!

Nice meeting up with new faces as well as familiar ones :)
 
A good day, with some interesting panels, and A Scanner Darkly added to my TBR pile, plus the free gift of Moorcock's Hawkmoon: The History of the Runestaff.

It's good to meet Chronners face to face, particularly when I've never met some of them before. :)
 
But only half of one of us!

S'alright, Boneman, I knew you'd shot off after Emma!
 
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