Tag: (business) Conventions

Blog: ConCarolinas Schedule is Available

Erin Penn

ConCarolinas (concarolinas.org) has scheduled my panels! It’s real – I mean, really real! I’m going and I have things I am going to be doing!

Going to need to pack, and get the panels together, and talk to people, and post and ….squeal – I should absolutely squeal!

FRIDAY June 3rd

7:00 pm     The Year in Science – Moderator: Stephen Euin Cobb; Speakers: JT the Enginerd, James Maxey & Erin Penn

Scientific Discoveries made during the last 12 months. (oooh, I need to get on that research ASAP.)

SATURDAY June 4th

10:00 am     Women in Science and Technology – Moderator: JT the Enginerd; Speakers: James McDonald & Erin Penn

Why don’t more women go into science? What can we do to promote women to go into science? Why do we even need more women in science in the first place?

2:30 pm     The Tech of Living for Centuries – Moderator: Stephen Euin Cobb; Speakers: JT the Enginerd, James McDonald & Erin Penn

Discussion of recent medical research aimed at extending human lifespan. Not if it’s appropriate, just what has been done.

5:30 pm     50 Years of SETI, Where is Everyone? – Moderator: Stephen Euin Cobb; Speakers: Dr. Ben Davis, DL Leonine, James McDonald & Erin Penn

A formal search for extraterrestrial intelligence has been in place for 50 years without meaningful result. Are we alone in the universe? And if we aren’t alone, then why haven’t we heard from anyone else?

10:00 pm     Welcome to the Anthropocene – Moderator:  James Maxey; Speakers: Dr. Ben Davis & Erin Penn

This year, the International Commission on Stratigraphy is set to decide whether or not the Earth has entered a new geological epoch: The Anthropocene. This is an age when human activity is a geological force writing itself into the very stones of the planet. What is the evidence that a new age has dawned? Do the geological footprints we’ve already left on the planet give us any guidance on how to move forward in the future? (This one is going to be great! – oh,  wow, did my day start at 10 am?)

Blog: The Muse Speaks Up

Erin Penn

Meme from Facebook (no associated copyright I know of)

 

“New job?” the muse in my head asks.

 

I wince. The slave driver is back. “Not so new anymore, the shiny has worn off a bit.”

 

“Yeah, kind of noticed. You are finally getting brain cells back now that you are not constantly learning new things.” He smiled, evilly. “Soooo, when can we write?”

 

“Please,” I beg. “I just caught up on my sleep. I still got my tax job on weekends, and my other virtual-night job, and I need to clean the house, and I haven’t seen my friends in six months, and ….”

 

He interrupts. “And when can we write?”

 

Not an argument I am going to win. “Tonight?”

 

“Tonight sounds good.”

 

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I’m back! Still need to do a dozen things, but they can wait – or so my muse says. My bill collectors don’t agree, but what do they know? The dust bunnies like living in the corners of my house and are on the muse’s side, so the majority wins.

 

So where were we, my dear readers, before life so rudely interrupted?

 

I had caught up on my bi-weekly postings. Needless to say, that has fallen behind again.

I was one shy of finally completing the Breathless Press Sunday Fun pictures and needing to switch format from the Sunday visual inspiration and Wednesday personal flash.

I had started the initial stages of two books: The Antichrist’s Big Sister Blog and Erin Penn’s First Base Collection Year 1.

 

So where are we going from here, because the ride isn’t over. My muse has declared it!

 

Well, I owe a few back blogs, 32 to be exact. Nineteen Sunday style and thirteen Wednesday style. Since only one Breathless Press Sunday Fun Photo remains, I am going to need to change the format of the blog a little.

 

Wednesday will continue to be a flash every week, but with a twist. On odd numbered Wednesdays a picture shall be used as inspiration for the flash (Visual Flash) – similar to the old Sunday Breathless Press pictures – and even numbered Wednesdays, the story will be produced without visual prompts (Text Flash). As I will be the source of all the pictures going forward, I will make certain the picture’s copyright allows blogging usage. I will continue to supplement the Text Flashes with images like I have in the past, writing the material first and then finding a matching picture.

 

On Sunday, I will aim to provide a 250 to 1.000 word segment of my Work-In-Progress (WIP). This will guarantee every week I will write at least 250 words for my WIP. (Thereby making my muse happy. It won’t shut him up, but he will be happy.) A minimum of 1,000 to 3,000 of a flirt (10K) should be completed every month with this schedule. Maybe I won’t be able to keep up with my original plan of 10K published words a month, but I will be able to deliver 3 to 4 flirts a year leveraging the Sunday WIP. The related pictures to the WIP shall be the cover art.

 

Still on the front burner are the two books, The Antichrist’s Big Sister Blog and Erin Penn’s First Base Collection Year 1. I paid for the cover art, I am going to use it. I will do a major push to get at least one, if not both, out by ConCarolinas. Since the convention is scheduled for May 30th to June 1st 2014, I don’t have much time. Like last year, I do plan to offer at least one of my published books for free through Amazon on the Monday immediately following the Con.

 

So that is the plan.

 

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“So are we going to really write now?”

 

“Yes, muse, we are going to write.”