Writercon 2009

[donutsweeper]

Thanks to travels_in_time I learned Writercon 2009: Writing Between the Lines will be held in Minneapolis in 2009.  Which, just happens to be my backyard! 

My immediate reaction is *flail* and *OMG meeting people's hard!!* but then the *OMG FUN!!* tries to knock those monsters into submission and *YAY FANDOM PARTY* takes over and *Wo0t! *

Since it's obviously just getting started in the planning stages for it there isn't a whole lot of specifics up at the website yet, but is anyone out there in LJ-land considering attending?  Anyone?

Comments

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

meeting LJ-ers would be awesome. A little freaky (I'm horribly shy in RL) but awesome

Me too - about the shy. Very much so. But I've discovered that a lot of my shyness must have to do with the "newness" of people and not knowing what to talk about, not knowing what we have in common, etc. - because in the past when I've met people who I already knew well through LJ, we skipped right over all that awkwardness and I had very little reason to be shy - we already knew what we have in common, that we feel comfortable with each other, what we like to talk about. So I really look forward to meeting Lj folks. :)

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

To some extent yes- that makes sense. But I freaked out for days over meeting in RL someone I'd known online for years. I'm a worrier

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

It's okay, I really understand. :) Hopefully you find that it usually turns out better than you expected. I have to remind myself of that a lot. Especially when attending social events. "You haven't been killed by a party so far, Rusty, and after 45 minutes of hiding, you usually have fun!" But that's after two days of sick worrying.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

omg, exactly. That's mee too.