a question for those planning or hoping to attend Minicon

[truepenny]

If I were to do a reading, would you come?

(The idea daunts me, but I figure that isn't actually a good excuse for not doing it.)

Comments

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

Hell, yeah.

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

Aww, readings are fun! :)

[pameladean]

Yes!

Well, if it wasn't at ten a.m. I'd try to come then, but Lord knows where I'd end up.

Pamela

[papersky.livejournal.com]

It depends what you read.

If it's a bit of a novel, no, because if I hear bits of novels and then wait for the rest of the novel, it messes up the pacing on me.

If it's a short story, yes.

Or, unless it's a bit of the novel that your publishers are sending me for me to say nice things about and I've already got it by then and read it. If it's something I've read, I'd come.

This isn't about you, this is about me and bits of novels. I think you should do a reading.

I also had a good idea for a panel, I think we (and a couple of other people) should do a panel on Revenge, why it's a theme and why it's cool.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

I also had a good idea for a panel, I think we (and a couple of other people) should do a panel on Revenge, why it's a theme and why it's cool.

Ooh, yes, please!

I was leaning more towards short story, because it seems unnecessarily cruel and tantalizing to read something like a novel that people (a.) won't get to hear all of, and (b.) won't be able to buy to find out the ending for another year-plus. That's just not nice.

[oracne.livejournal.com]

Alas, I will not be at Minicon, but if I were, I would go to your reading. Maybe you'll get one at WisCon and I can go to that.

The real reason I bothered to comment is that I have a trick which might help, if you don't do a lot of readings. When I go through a manuscript and read it aloud to time it, I also treat it like a piece of music and mark my breaths and word stresses, the former with apostrophes and the latter by underlining. I'm no actor, but having those two things marked helps me be a bit less monotoned.

[lcohen]

if i make it to minicon, you bet!

[eileenlufkin.livejournal.com]

Yes, please!