Wiscon schedule
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truepenny"Punctuation, Grammar, Usage: Who Needs 'Em?"
"The difference between 'that' and 'which' or 'anxious' and 'eager'; proper use of the subjunctive mood; the serial comma. Lots of rules...why should you care? Panelists discuss the delicate balance between the precision of expression that the rules are meant to support and the fact that living language is fluid and malleable, and how this all applies to a genre which is sometimes described as unconstrained by time, space, or reality."
Friday, 9:00-10:15 P.M.
Senate B
M: Delia Sherman, Deb Taber, Rebecca Maines, Tom La Farge, Sarah Monette
Two Heads With But a Single Brain - Collaborators talk about writing together
"How two (or more) can do what one can not (or not). The advantages, the pitfalls of writers pooling their talent. Collaborators provide anecdotes, insights, recriminations."
Saturday, 10:00-11:15 A.M.
Capitol B
M: Richard Bowes, Mark Rich, Sarah Monette, Eileen Gunn
Why Return a King (or Queen)?
"Why are fantasy writers from democratic countries so fascinated by monarchy? Why is The Return of the King assumed to be a good thing? And why do some women writers seem to adopt monarchy and just substitute a queen instead of a king? Is it just easier to write 'in the tradition', or are there deeper forces at work?"
Sunday, 10:00-11:15 A.M.
Capitol A
M: Georgie Schnobrich, Chris Hill, Tamora Pierce, Sarah Monette, P. C. Hodgell
Like Quills upon the Fretful Porcupine
Sunday, 2:30-3:45 P.M.
Fair Trade
Elizabeth Bear, Sarah Monette, David Levine, Ellen Kushner
How Much Is Too Much?
"Unless we're reading or writing about a utopia, the societies in our fantasy worlds are going to have problems. In fact, a culture without problems invariably comes off as shallow and unrealistic. Does this mean we need to include things like sexism and racism if we want to tell a believable story? And if so, are we, as authors, guilty of perpetuating whatever-ism in the real world?"
Monday, 8:30-9:45 A.M.
Assembly
M: Sarah Monette, Catherynne M. Valente, Gregory Rihn, Elissa Malcohn, L. Timmel Duchamp
Okay, who, WHO is the sadist who decided that 8:30 AM on Monday was the perfect time for a panel about realpolitik verisimilitude in fantasy?
Everybody who shows up is seriously getting a reward. There may be doughnuts.
"The difference between 'that' and 'which' or 'anxious' and 'eager'; proper use of the subjunctive mood; the serial comma. Lots of rules...why should you care? Panelists discuss the delicate balance between the precision of expression that the rules are meant to support and the fact that living language is fluid and malleable, and how this all applies to a genre which is sometimes described as unconstrained by time, space, or reality."
Friday, 9:00-10:15 P.M.
Senate B
M: Delia Sherman, Deb Taber, Rebecca Maines, Tom La Farge, Sarah Monette
Two Heads With But a Single Brain - Collaborators talk about writing together
"How two (or more) can do what one can not (or not). The advantages, the pitfalls of writers pooling their talent. Collaborators provide anecdotes, insights, recriminations."
Saturday, 10:00-11:15 A.M.
Capitol B
M: Richard Bowes, Mark Rich, Sarah Monette, Eileen Gunn
Why Return a King (or Queen)?
"Why are fantasy writers from democratic countries so fascinated by monarchy? Why is The Return of the King assumed to be a good thing? And why do some women writers seem to adopt monarchy and just substitute a queen instead of a king? Is it just easier to write 'in the tradition', or are there deeper forces at work?"
Sunday, 10:00-11:15 A.M.
Capitol A
M: Georgie Schnobrich, Chris Hill, Tamora Pierce, Sarah Monette, P. C. Hodgell
Like Quills upon the Fretful Porcupine
Sunday, 2:30-3:45 P.M.
Fair Trade
Elizabeth Bear, Sarah Monette, David Levine, Ellen Kushner
How Much Is Too Much?
"Unless we're reading or writing about a utopia, the societies in our fantasy worlds are going to have problems. In fact, a culture without problems invariably comes off as shallow and unrealistic. Does this mean we need to include things like sexism and racism if we want to tell a believable story? And if so, are we, as authors, guilty of perpetuating whatever-ism in the real world?"
Monday, 8:30-9:45 A.M.
Assembly
M: Sarah Monette, Catherynne M. Valente, Gregory Rihn, Elissa Malcohn, L. Timmel Duchamp
Okay, who, WHO is the sadist who decided that 8:30 AM on Monday was the perfect time for a panel about realpolitik verisimilitude in fantasy?
Everybody who shows up is seriously getting a reward. There may be doughnuts.
