EMEPiper Ep 4: Time Management at Events

Why time management at events? It’s con season and for many, conventions or conferences become a blur of things to do, people to see, and it’s easy to lose the key reasons you attended when overwhelmed by the sheer craziness of it all. I love attending them, learning new things, meeting people, refreshing acquaintances. It can be intimidating and confusing. It can be an onslaught to the senses. And it can be amazing, when I manage my time to make the most of it.

Piper J Drake teaching a workshop at RT16

Attending conventions and conferences is costly, both in terms of money invested to go and time taken away from writerly things to be there. In this podcast episode, I talk about how I manage my time to prepare and attend cons to make the best use of both my money invested and my time.

Highlights

I’ve got a lot of events in 2016
Questions I ask myself before deciding to go
Planning ahead: 6 months to a year
More Planning ahead: a few months
A few weeks in advance: do my clothes fit? Where’s the schedule?
I’ve arrived! It starts in the lobby.
Set up your room for convenience and comfort

Shout-outs

RT Booklover’s Convention in Las Vegas, NV (Apr 12-17)
Barbara Vey’s Reader Appreciation Luncheon in Milwaukee, WI  (Apr 29 – May 1)
SFWA Nebula Conference in Chicago as PJ Schnyder, IL (Saturday, May 14)
2016 Out of Excuses Writing Workshop and Retreat on The Independence of the Seas (Sep 20 – 27)

Next episode

Time management at event tips once you arrive at con, before things get started…

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