Armadillocon 31 - First Taste

It’s actually a week after Armadillocon 31.  Can I believe it?  At this time last week, I was finally collapsing after a day in workshop.  Half the day was panel/lecture and half the day was going over stories.  The workshop itself was nowhere as traumatic as I feared.    No one pointed to me and said “you should be writing like that guy over there!” 
I was probably too animated during workshop, but I found something to like in all the stories, even the space opera styled stories.  There is no film of the workshop, but I will embed a few examples of panels after the convention started.


Anyway, after a day in workshop, I went to the Opening Ceremonies.  At which I found that Texans are as self-congratulatory as New Orleanians.  Lots of laughter there.  I went up to the room to rest and found that an hour would not do.  After staggering around the room, I took my nightly Rx and went back to bed.  Friday down and the convention didn’t really start for me until Saturday.


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Armadillocon 31 - Young Adult panel

I did get a chance to get a definition of YA.  I had wondered why “Octavian Nothing” was a juvenile and the panelists agreed that it wasn’t.  However, it is YA.  When they say young adult—they mean it.   This was a panel that I normally would not have attended, but found interesting.