Comments on: You Say Not Working, I Say Networking http://doombot.com/2006/02/21/you-say-not-working-i-say-networking/ by Jane Austen Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:05:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: zandperl http://doombot.com/2006/02/21/you-say-not-working-i-say-networking/comment-page-1/#comment-171 zandperl Thu, 23 Feb 2006 05:09:00 +0000 http://www.doombot.com/wordpress/?p=174#comment-171 <i>my prior convention experience was the trip Jason, a couple of other friends, and I took to Otakon in 2001</i> PAX 2005 doesn't count? <i>I hear compulsive origami is quickly supplanting heroin addiction as the menace to watch in 2006.</i> Definitely. One of my students last semester couldn't help but fold up, even during class. She even left the sad remnants of her addiction lying around at the end of lab; I had to clean them up for her on numerous times. It was getting so bad I was considering calling in the campus police to confront her. I wonder if there's anywhere in the city with a paper exchange program. my prior convention experience was the trip Jason, a couple of other friends, and I took to Otakon in 2001

PAX 2005 doesn’t count?

I hear compulsive origami is quickly supplanting heroin addiction as the menace to watch in 2006.

Definitely. One of my students last semester couldn’t help but fold up, even during class. She even left the sad remnants of her addiction lying around at the end of lab; I had to clean them up for her on numerous times. It was getting so bad I was considering calling in the campus police to confront her. I wonder if there’s anywhere in the city with a paper exchange program.

]]> By: Dan http://doombot.com/2006/02/21/you-say-not-working-i-say-networking/comment-page-1/#comment-170 Dan Wed, 22 Feb 2006 23:45:00 +0000 http://www.doombot.com/wordpress/?p=174#comment-170 A few people asked Martin if he knew what the end of his series was going to be. His analogy was that he certainly knew where the trip was going, but he doesn't know every detour, roadside attraction, or hitchhiker along the way. Can't speak for Robert Jordan. I hear he's gotten accustomed to eating gold-plated Eggo waffles for breakfast every morning. A few people asked Martin if he knew what the end of his series was going to be. His analogy was that he certainly knew where the trip was going, but he doesn’t know every detour, roadside attraction, or hitchhiker along the way.

Can’t speak for Robert Jordan. I hear he’s gotten accustomed to eating gold-plated Eggo waffles for breakfast every morning.

]]> By: Jordan http://doombot.com/2006/02/21/you-say-not-working-i-say-networking/comment-page-1/#comment-169 Jordan Wed, 22 Feb 2006 22:55:00 +0000 http://www.doombot.com/wordpress/?p=174#comment-169 <i>When I asked how he keeps track of the elaborate storylines and numerous characters in his epic fantasy series...</i> When those people who write epic fantasy books write them, do they know in advance that it's going to be a series? I have wondered if the events that unfold over the course of 6-7 books *just happened* to fit together so nicely, or if they had the basic idea in their head the whole time, or if after the first book does well they mock up the stories of the next five, or whatever. When I asked how he keeps track of the elaborate storylines and numerous characters in his epic fantasy series…

When those people who write epic fantasy books write them, do they know in advance that it’s going to be a series? I have wondered if the events that unfold over the course of 6-7 books *just happened* to fit together so nicely, or if they had the basic idea in their head the whole time, or if after the first book does well they mock up the stories of the next five, or whatever.

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