Learning while driving
Feb. 20th, 2007 10:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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bonniers and slobbit, met matociquala, attended lots of panels . . . and I'll blog about it later.
I drove from Pennsylvania to Massachusetts, and to keep myself amused on the ride, I burned some podcasts to CD. It worked well; from here toslobbit's house is just about 3 CDs worth of material. I download lots of podcasts to my computer, but since I'm usually writing or working when I'm at my computer, I don't listen to them as often as I should. This was a good chance to listen to things I'd been meaning to.
A couple of the CDs were from Escape Pod. I'd recently read Greg van Eekhout's "Tales from the City of Seams," so his "Authorwerx" (Escape Pod episode #87) went onto a CD. I also added a couple of Cory Doctorow stories and a pair of Tobias Buckell's.
I loaded one CD with "Getting Past Being Joe Blow Neopro" (also by Tobias Buckell), available from the Spoken Alexandria Project (originally aired February of last year). I highly recommend this series of six articles for those who are trying to become neopros, too, especially his discussion of visions and milestones.
The other podcast I listened to episodes of was Mur Lafferty's I Should Be Writing. She has lots of good advice, and she does interviews with published authors frequently (including David Drake, Nancy Kress, and Neil Gaiman).
I still have days and days worth of podcasts I need to listen to, but as Mur says . . . I should be writing.
bonniers and slobbit, met matociquala, attended lots of panels . . . and I'll blog about it later.I drove from Pennsylvania to Massachusetts, and to keep myself amused on the ride, I burned some podcasts to CD. It worked well; from here to
slobbit's house is just about 3 CDs worth of material. I download lots of podcasts to my computer, but since I'm usually writing or working when I'm at my computer, I don't listen to them as often as I should. This was a good chance to listen to things I'd been meaning to.A couple of the CDs were from Escape Pod. I'd recently read Greg van Eekhout's "Tales from the City of Seams," so his "Authorwerx" (Escape Pod episode #87) went onto a CD. I also added a couple of Cory Doctorow stories and a pair of Tobias Buckell's.
I loaded one CD with "Getting Past Being Joe Blow Neopro" (also by Tobias Buckell), available from the Spoken Alexandria Project (originally aired February of last year). I highly recommend this series of six articles for those who are trying to become neopros, too, especially his discussion of visions and milestones.
The other podcast I listened to episodes of was Mur Lafferty's I Should Be Writing. She has lots of good advice, and she does interviews with published authors frequently (including David Drake, Nancy Kress, and Neil Gaiman).
I still have days and days worth of podcasts I need to listen to, but as Mur says . . . I should be writing.
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Date: 2007-02-21 02:10 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-02-21 02:20 pm (UTC)Thanks for the pointer to Tobias' podcasts. They sound interesting, and while I don't often find time for listening to podcasts I may try to make time for this.
Are you going to do a more throrough Boskone writeup? I'm enjoying reading other peoples' thoughts on how the con went. I had a great time and I'm looking forward to going again next year.
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Date: 2007-02-21 02:48 pm (UTC)With all those blogs, I can see where it would be difficult to find time to listen. ;-) As I said, though, I don't listen to them very often, either. One thing that could make it easy is to realize each episode is between 10 and 15 minutes long. If you can make 15 minutes a day for a week, you're done.
Yes, I am planning to do a more thorough write-up. And thanks for the pointer to the Miami kids that Tobias Buckell mentioned in the folklore and myth panel. That was something I wanted to follow up on!