{"id":62,"date":"2013-08-27T19:01:20","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T02:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/?p=62"},"modified":"2013-09-02T10:18:27","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T17:18:27","slug":"pre-worldcon-ramblings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"Pre-WorldCon Ramblings"},"content":{"rendered":"

My work week is finished! \u00a0Tomorrow, I get on a plane for WorldCon<\/a>!!<\/p>\n

I find it difficult to express just how excited I am to go to this event. \u00a0I expressed<\/a> it a bit last year, when someone interviewed me and M. Todd Gallowglas<\/a> after Chicon was done. \u00a0In regards to that video, I have to say that I’m glad it came out as well as it did. \u00a0I almost said some stuff in it that would have been permanently, irrevocably embarrassing.<\/p>\n

Okay, let’s blab about WorldCon in general.<\/p>\n

It is the yearly event that I look forward to the most, now. \u00a0When I was in the Air Force, it was a different convention, Dundracon<\/a>,\u00a0that I looked forward to. \u00a0I loved gaming, and I knew that I’d be able to meet up with my good friend David there. \u00a0It was a yearly voyage where I’d get to go and feel like I was going home.<\/p>\n

Now it’s WorldCon. \u00a0Ever since Reno, WorldCon has built up more and more in my mind.<\/p>\n

It doesn’t even make all that much sense, really. \u00a0I’m not a published author yet. \u00a0I’m not a very passionate fan, and indeed, I don’t recognize most of the names of the writers that are in attendance. \u00a0I’m not particularly good at the networking aspect. \u00a0There might not be that much more information I can get from the panels that I haven’t heard already.<\/p>\n

And yet, I still feel like this is Shangri La, or Brigadoon, or some other magical place that I’ll get to visit. \u00a0Maybe it’s the open, welcoming community that I feel I have so much in common with. \u00a0Maybe it’s the dream that one day I’ll go to a WorldCon and be the guy that people want to see on panels, or sign books. \u00a0Maybe it’s the experiences, such as the Kaffeeklatsch where I got to discover just how awesome Hugh Howey<\/a>\u00a0is as he served me and the other visitors water, and gave us signed copies of his books. \u00a0Or that Tor party where Emma Newman<\/a>\u00a0talked with me for more than an hour and a half, giving me the most amazing encouragement to keep on writing.<\/p>\n

It’s all of that and more.<\/p>\n

Reno was the WorldCon that woke me up and reminded me that I like Sci-Fi and Fantasy, and that I should be writing. \u00a0Chicago was the WorldCon where I picked up some advice and started to take to heart the things I needed to actually do the writing. \u00a0What does San Antonio hold for me? \u00a0I can’t wait to find out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My work week is finished! \u00a0Tomorrow, I get on a plane for WorldCon!! I find it difficult to express just how excited I am to go to this event. \u00a0I expressed it a bit last year, when someone interviewed me and M. Todd Gallowglas after Chicon was done. \u00a0In regards to that video, I have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,7],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-lonestarcon3","tag-worldcon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}