Name: Mapping and Fiction Writing
Start: 2014-10-05T12:00:00-0700
End: 2014-10-05T13:00:00-0700

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Every year, VCON’s crack Programming team assembles three days jam-packed with the best in panels, workshops, and events to keep you in geek nirvana. We hope that you are as excited by the panels, discussions, workshops and presentations we have on offer this year as we are!

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Mapping and Fiction Writing

Having a working knowledge of geography assists greatly in world building. Cultures and powers who controlled the maps were able to control the world, the structures of religion, the politics and the finance. What revealing details do maps add for readers and writers to the description look and feel of realms that never were? What delights do they add to the landscape of the imagination? How do you use your map to determine where attacks might come, based on cultural boundaries and borders? How do you decide where battles would most likely be fought?

Moderators

Brenda Carre

author, hybrid author

Brenda Carre lives on Vancouver Island, on land still steeped in indigenous lore where myth can arise from the waves of the Salish Sea on the backs of Orca. Her stories are published in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, Fiction River Anthologies... Read More →

Guests

Christel Bodenbender

Catherine Girczyc

writer

Catherine is a television writer with 15 credited scripts, plus published short stories + poems. Upcoming: two poems in Tesseracts 20 plus a story in Polar Borealis. Awards: 3 WOTF Honorable Mentions, 2 Auroras (fan) for Ether Patrol + Neology.

Bruce Heard

Fearless Leader, Calidar Publishing

Bruce Heard (born in in Nice, France) is a game designer, and an author of several products for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game from TSR. At least, this is what Wikipedia says about me! I grew up in France (mostly), England, Morocco, Washington DC, and Texas. I... Read More →

Julie McGalliard

Julie McGalliard is a writer and occasional cartoonist. Her first novel, Waking Up Naked in Strange Places, was released in 2015.

Vincent Morgan

Vince lives with his family in Richmond. He is an avid reader of science fiction with a particular fondness for space opera. He has authored several short stories including Murdock’s Last stand, Umbuto’s Rock, An Alien Initiative, Debt of Honor and the Art of Data Tri-So, and... Read More →

Sunday October 5, 2014 12:00 - 13:00 PDT
05. Green Timber 2 Second Floor, Right Side

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