Personal Note: Providence Anime Conference, Day One

So, I spent this past weekend at the first ever Providence Anime Conference, which chose to distinguish itself from the vast array of other conventions out there by instituting an age floor: participants were required to be at least 21. Overall, I found it to be a tiny but friendly affair, with plenty of interesting programming despite its size and very few technical hitches or last-minute schedule rearrangements. I'm not sure I would want to travel as far as Providence for such a small event in future, but I certainly got my money's worth on this trip.

( On day one, we arrived ... )

Fanwriting: Making Haste Slowly, Part 3

Just in time for the end of the Fire and Ice 2008 challenge (congratulations, artemisrae: I voted for your piece, though I thought it was lyric_nonsense's, because the only story whose author I identified correctly was cornerofmadness's, because nobody else I know consistently writes dialogue that wouldn't be out of place in a Howard Hawks film :-), I've finished draft the second (typescript) of "In My End Is My Beginning":

8,803 / 8,400 (104.8%)

As you can see, I ran right over my initial estimate of length, but since my first draft didn't actually have a formal conclusion (I handwrote my way up to the last dialogue zinger and then stopped), that's not unexpected. Persons with a vested interest in seeing me poke a toe outside my comfort zone will perhaps be pleased to note that I did, in the event, decide to cut the power and let my characters spoon in the dark. But since it's dark, you can't really see anything, so my modesty is preserved. Win-win.

Now I've got to revise the thing. I've already identified three different places where I'm missing transitions, oh joy ...