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pbray ([personal profile] pbray) wrote2009-10-05 05:06 pm
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Albacon

Albacon has posted their preliminary schedule, so here's where I'll be this coming weekend:

Friday, 5PM, That Little Shop in Schenectady: where writers get their ideas

Saturday, 10AM, Science Fiction Films We Love

Saturday, 2PM, Nontraditional fantasy settings

Sunday, 10AM, Do you Outline or not?

Oddly enough, Joshua Palmatier and I aren't on any panels together, perhaps a punishment for past sins (but the brains were so tasty! honest!)

Anyway, if you're there, be sure to stop by and say "Hi!"

[identity profile] shana.livejournal.com 2009-10-05 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll be there.

Well, this way you can be in the audience and heckle each other. Or act as shills, depending.

[identity profile] pbray.livejournal.com 2009-10-05 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Great, looking forward to seeing you there!

[identity profile] califmole.livejournal.com 2009-10-05 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I may come in just for the day on Saturday, if I do I'll be sure to find you, and buy you a drink. Or two :-)

[identity profile] pbray.livejournal.com 2009-10-05 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
That would be awesome!

[identity profile] jpsorrow.livejournal.com 2009-10-05 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, this reminds me I should post my dinner plans panel schedule for Albacon as well.

[identity profile] pbray.livejournal.com 2009-10-05 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Mmmm, bwains!

[identity profile] melissajm.livejournal.com 2009-10-05 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
We get to share a panel! Woohoo!

[identity profile] pbray.livejournal.com 2009-10-05 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Should be a great way to start the con.

[identity profile] jjschwabach.livejournal.com 2009-10-05 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I am on a panel with the roudoubtable Mr. Palmatier, but not with you.

I am, however, on a Zombie panel, which I thought would get the three of us together, but did not. It cannot be for your sins, as I was just as happy chomping on the audience's brains as you were.

[identity profile] jjschwabach.livejournal.com 2009-10-05 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Oops! Redoubtable. No wonder my computer was sticking red lines under it. I generally ignore that, given that I am so often typing things like, "Would a Patronus Charm protect you from Daleks?"
Answer: "Your Patronus will be exterminated!"

[identity profile] pbray.livejournal.com 2009-10-05 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Well you will just have to keep an eye on him...watch out for any sudden moves.

[identity profile] jjschwabach.livejournal.com 2009-10-06 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
My Inner Slayer will protect me. That and my tooth-armor.

I should go post my Albacon schedule.
(wanders off to do so.)

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/ 2009-10-05 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Have a lovely time. I wish it was our 'local' (as in, on the same island) Albacon, though. (There was a series of that name in Scotland.)

[identity profile] pbray.livejournal.com 2009-10-05 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Hanging out with you at a local would be lovely indeed.

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/ 2009-10-05 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
We will manage it one day, I swear.
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[identity profile] pbray.livejournal.com 2009-10-06 12:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Well actually this weekend Josh and I are in a threesome with [livejournal.com profile] scbutler.

Looking forward to seeing you there!
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[identity profile] pbray.livejournal.com 2009-10-06 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Patricia = tasty human brains. Or find me in the bar, with beer.
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[identity profile] pbray.livejournal.com 2009-10-06 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Mmmmmm
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[personal profile] tryslora 2009-10-06 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
We'll see you there! And you shall simply have to find other brains to nosh on? I will have the camera for evidence gathering, of course. *grins*

[identity profile] pbray.livejournal.com 2009-10-06 12:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Excellent!

[identity profile] karen-w-newton.livejournal.com 2009-10-06 12:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I've never been in Schenectady. Obviously, that's my problem selling a book!

Wish Albacon was closer. Would like to know results of outline panel; I'm betting it will be 50/50.

[identity profile] pbray.livejournal.com 2009-10-06 12:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm betting it will be 50/50 as well, and we'll stare at each other with the mutual confusion and suspicion that is more often characteristic of the Coke vs Pepsi debate. :-)

[identity profile] karen-w-newton.livejournal.com 2009-10-06 12:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Now see, with Coke vs. Pepsi, I have to confess I can't tell the difference! Good simile, though. Or do I mean metaphor?

[identity profile] pbray.livejournal.com 2009-10-06 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd call it an analogy, since I'm a CompSci major at heart.

[identity profile] jennifer-dunne.livejournal.com 2009-10-06 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't forget the followon question: If you outline, does the book you produce bear any resemblance whatsoever to the outline?

(We can't ALL envision the events of book 3 when setting out to write book 1 of a trilogy, you know...)

[identity profile] pbray.livejournal.com 2009-10-06 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Good point! There's nothing saying that you have to follow the outline, or even that the outline is at all helpful when you get to the actual writing part.