Title: Conrunning for Fun and Profit Also Fun Mod(s): I'm in, and I think jrho is Open or Closed: Open for now--co-mods who have worked on other cons, especially traditional SF cons, would be great. Type: Full-length, live Category: Meta Description: Interested in joining your local concom, or starting your own con? Or just in seeing what happens behind the scenes? We'll talk about best practices and horror stories, the emergence of the online convention, and what lessons we can take from online cons when we can start getting together in person again.
Title: "But the Twentieth Century Will Be Happy": Writing Historical Fandoms 201 Mod(s): Me! and a couple of co-mods would be great Open or Closed: Open for now Type: Full-length, live Category: Meta Description: We've had a lot of panels about research; this panel is for talking about the problems that more research doesn't solve: How to write that story that goes AU from historical canon, when only ten people in fandom will spot the divergence point? What about the historical AU of your historical canon? How to bring new readers in your tiny fandom up to speed without boring everyone who already knows the background? Or to pin down a canon that doesn't seem to know what year it takes place? What about older canons that were historical fiction when they were made--and the study of history has moved on? Or canons that were futuristic--and actual history has moved on? This panel is all about the squishy space between what your research says, what the reader knows, and what the canon believes about history.
[My current fandom is Les Miserables, and I've done a lot of historical one-shots for Yuletide; I would love to have co-mods with backgrounds in other fandoms.]
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Date: 2021-03-24 04:28 pm (UTC)ProfitAlso FunMod(s): I'm in, and I think
Open or Closed: Open for now--co-mods who have worked on other cons, especially traditional SF cons, would be great.
Type: Full-length, live
Category: Meta
Description: Interested in joining your local concom, or starting your own con? Or just in seeing what happens behind the scenes? We'll talk about best practices and horror stories, the emergence of the online convention, and what lessons we can take from online cons when we can start getting together in person again.
Title: "But the Twentieth Century Will Be Happy": Writing Historical Fandoms 201
Mod(s): Me! and a couple of co-mods would be great
Open or Closed: Open for now
Type: Full-length, live
Category: Meta
Description: We've had a lot of panels about research; this panel is for talking about the problems that more research doesn't solve: How to write that story that goes AU from historical canon, when only ten people in fandom will spot the divergence point? What about the historical AU of your historical canon? How to bring new readers in your tiny fandom up to speed without boring everyone who already knows the background? Or to pin down a canon that doesn't seem to know what year it takes place? What about older canons that were historical fiction when they were made--and the study of history has moved on? Or canons that were futuristic--and actual history has moved on? This panel is all about the squishy space between what your research says, what the reader knows, and what the canon believes about history.
[My current fandom is Les Miserables, and I've done a lot of historical one-shots for Yuletide; I would love to have co-mods with backgrounds in other fandoms.]