Con Programme Follow-up Questions

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Dear All,

Thank you very much for your suggestions. I’m currently trying to organise all the talks and activities into a timey-wimey-table so with this in mind I wanted to gauge people’s thoughts various things.

Here are the talks and activities that we have so far listed, including the person more or less in charge. Please do not stress or hyperventilate. All we ask of the ‘presenters’ is that they come with something to start us off! This could be some key points or observations, examples, pictures, video clips, questions, topics to debate/hear people’s thoughts on or any other prompts. Nobody is required to put together any kind of detailed lecture so please do not worry! Anyway, with that calming message and in no particular order…

• Behind the Scenes of AO3 and Organisation of Transformative Works by moth2fic


• Breaking the Fourth Wall: Fans, Creators and Mainstream Media by pushkin666


• So Bad It’s Funny: Bad Fic, Bad Writing, Good Laughs by zellieh


• Finding Inspiration by thesmallhobbit


• Approaching Writing by zellieh


• There Are Voices In My Head – Getting into Character by pushkin666


• How to Survive Co-Authoring by kat_lair and pushkin666


• Writing Exercises, including a drabble/limerick challenge – PLEASE PROVIDE SOME SUGGESTIONS!


• Zombie Apocalypse Now by dreamersdare


• Writing BDSM & Kink by kat_lair & pushkin666


• Partners for Life! Appeal of the Buddy Cop Genre by margaret_r


• Super! Heroism and Humanity Beyond the Norm by dreamersdare


• Vid Show – PLEASE PROVIDE SOME SUGGESTIONS!

And the New/Small Fandom Pimps:

• Fully Into Almost Human by thesmallhobbit


• Dance, Food and Comedy: The Inexplicable Lure of British TV RPS by kat_lair and pushkin666


• Feeling Grimm Yet? by kat_lair


• DO YOU HAVE A NEW/SMALL FANDOM YOU WOULD LIKE TO PIMP?

Wowza, that’s quite a bit of stuff! So that everything goes smoothly I have 6 questions for you all, answers in comments please (too lazy to make a poll).

1. Happy with the talks and activities?


2. Currently I have estimated ~1h per talk/activity with the inbuilt flexibility and expectation that some stuff will take less, some maybe longer, people will wonder to the kitchen for food, we will all get distracted by talking about/doing something completely different… Does this seem about right?


3. Would you prefer the talks/activities to be organised a) thematically (e.g. all the writing related things together) OR b) mixed-up merrily for variation


4. Do you have any specific writing exercises that you think might work well? Please provide details!


5. Do you have any favourite vids you would like included in the vid show? Please provide links!


6. Do you have a fandom you would like to pimp to the others to recruit new fans? Please provide details!

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