This is turning into a DucKon week, rather than just a day, which you'd think I'd remember after doing this for 4 years, but every year it surprises me. I got a preliminary panel list put together, and sent out to my panelists. And got stuff back from most of them. (Thanks!!) Tomorrow I'll start nagging the others.

Then the last couple days I've been working on my presentations that'll happen Friday night. "Formatting Yourself Out Of The Slush Pile" and "Editing Yourself Out Of The Slush Pile". I tried to do the 2nd one last year, but bad preparation on my part turned it into the first one. So, I'm aiming to havethem both done before the Con starts, so I can make sure I'm giving the right talk.

The only problem is that the Editing talk is growing. It's good stuff, but I'm going to have a tough time getting it into 2 hours. Which isn't all bad... I've been considering doing some community-ed classes, and this talk will be perfect for that.

I went digging through my files yesterday and was surprised how much material I already had for these talks. The biggist problem is figuring out where stuff goes, and getting powerpoint to do what I want, so my points will be clear as I talk.

I'm finding it really interesting how much I have missed doing this. Once of the things I really liked doing in all my years in the corporate world was putting together presentations. I hadn't realized how well it combines my need to write and my need to do art... since a good presentation requires both.

Back to work. :-)