WFC is one of the events that I go to when I can, but between the membership price, the usual cost of the hotel and the distance it's almost always as expensive as WorldCon without the reliable 1000 people I know to hang out with.
Programming is quite engaging even if you're not a writer, but once I wasn't a bookstore owner anymore I found myself struggling to connect with new people - I didn't have an identity (writer, artist, publisher, editor, agent, bookseller, even iPhone programmer) that new acquaintances could hang their memories on. Not unlike meeting folks in the working word when you are a stay at home Mom.
I have had a really wonderful time in the years where I knew enough people already, and a mildly interesting but overall unfulfilling time in the years when I didn't.
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Date: 2009-08-14 11:42 (UTC)Programming is quite engaging even if you're not a writer, but once I wasn't a bookstore owner anymore I found myself struggling to connect with new people - I didn't have an identity (writer, artist, publisher, editor, agent, bookseller, even iPhone programmer) that new acquaintances could hang their memories on. Not unlike meeting folks in the working word when you are a stay at home Mom.
I have had a really wonderful time in the years where I knew enough people already, and a mildly interesting but overall unfulfilling time in the years when I didn't.