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Back from Balticon 47 – Part 4

Time to bring Back from Balticon to an end. This is part 4, the Final Installment. (cue dramatic music) Time to take a look at Memorial Day Monday. A day to do more than franticly pack up your hotel room and say teary good-byes to friends old and new in the lobby (although that happens too). It is a day to take some time to remember those men and women who gave their all to establish and defend America, and be grateful for the things that their sacrifice has brought us. It’s also the last day...

Balticon 47 Wrap up – Part 2, Metamor City Live Audio Drama

For part 2 of the Balticon 47 Wrap up, we’re jumping right into the action with a special episode of Metamor City recorded live at Balticon! Regular listeners of Metamor City will have already heard this episode, but for those who have yet to discover Metamor City, this is a taste of the high quality storytelling you will find from Chris Lester and the others who have been able to play in Chris’ world.

Metamor City is set in a world where high technology and high magic live side by side, and l...

Back from Balticon 47 – Part 3

In part 1, I talked about some of the wonderful people, both old friends and new friends, who make Balticon such an amazing event for me. In part 2, I went over a couple of the highlights of the first half of the weekend. Now, in Part 3, we’re going to look at the rest of the weekend.

Sunday

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday! Sunday was the busiest day of the weekend. Not only was I participating on more panels on Sunday, most of the panels that I wanted to attend were on Sunday. So the day was jam packed...

Balticon 47 Wrap up – Part 1, Meeting Other Podcasters

What? This again? Didn’t we just finish this?

No, not quite. That was the Balticon 46 Wrap up, but this weekend was Balticon 47. So now we have a whole new series of audio! And this year’s series promises to be bigger, and features some really amazing recordings from Balticon 47. And we’re going to start the series off where Balticon started off, with the very first panel.

Our podcast today is from the panel Meeting Other Podcasters. This panel was intended to address the pros and cons of getti...

What is the Magic Spreadsheet?

No one can tell you what the Magic Spreadsheet is. You have to experience it for yourself. But darned if I’m not going to try.

Since coming back from this year’s Balticon, I’ve had a number of people ask me “What is the Magic Spreadsheet?”. So I looked back over my past posts to point them to an answer, and found that I don’t really have a post that addresses that question well. So, it is time to give that a try.

The Magic Spreadsheet is a tool for helping writers get into the habit of writing...

Back from Balticon 47 – Part 2

In the previous installment, I talked about the wonderful people who filled my Balticon Weekend. I wasn’t able to mention everyone who made the weekend a memorable event, but I tried to address as many as I could. I probably should address some of the folks I left out, but instead, I want to move on to some of the more memorable events of the weekend that made it theincrediblyspecial experience that it was.I won’t mention every panel we attended, but I would like to point out that there will...

Back from Balticon 47 – Part 1

Balticon 47 is over all too soon. It was an incredible, amazing, action-packed weekend, and as much as I look forward to getting some rest now, I would like to have a few more days of it! I guess we’re all going to be looking forward to next year. In the meantime, there are squirrels to juggle…

Old friends

One of the favorite things about Balticon is the chance to see friends that you don’t get any opportunity to see any other time of the year. Even though this was only my fourth time at Baltic...

All good things must come to an end…

For forty-six days I found time each day to write something. At first, I wrote 250 words each day. Actually, most days I well surpassed 250 words, although there were a few days when I just barely ticked over 250. After a month, I leveled up and raised the target to 300 words a day. I still made regular progress. And then, on the forty-seventh day, after a long day at work, I came home, climbed into bed, and collapsed. I slept through until the next day. And my writing chain was broken.

Of cou...

Balticon 46 Wrap up – Part 13, Live Reading

At last we come to our final installment in the Balticon 46 Wrap up. It has been a fun trip down memory lane, and we’ve managed to get this last installment out to you before the beginning of Balticon 47! This final installment comes from a reading on Monday afternoon. The reading featured Gary Lester of Channel 37, myself, and Yoji Kondo. We’ve decided to divide the reading up into three sections. If you want to hear all three, you’ll have to visit the post for this episode.

The recording of...

Balticon 47 Schedule Updates

I just posted my schedule and already some things are changing! Most of them are small changes, adding or subtracting a few names from the schedule, filling in some gaps, identifying a moderator. That sort of thing. But there are some bigger things in store, too. We’ve added a new reading with author Justin Macumber on Sunday night! If you’re not making it to Balticon this year, you’re really missing out!

Here are the changes to the schedule. If you saw a panel on the last post and don’t see i...