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Anyone Going to LTUE?
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 9:05 pm
by moose42
Life The Universe and Everything (LTUE) is a speculative fiction, creative writing convention/lecture series held every year for the past 28 years at BYU in Provo Utah.
It's only $20 for three jam packed days, February 17th 18th and 19th.
Preregistration is up, and so is the
schedule.
According to the schedule the following authors will be in attendance, plus some.
Larry Correia
Dan Wells
John Brown
Howard Tayler
Bree DeSpain
Tracy Hickman
Brad R. Torgersen
L. E. Modesitt, Jr
So anyone on the forum going? Do you guys want to meet up and do lunch, or dinner or something?
Re: Anyone Going to LTUE?
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 3:26 am
by staylor
I would if i didn't live in Frikkin' California.

Re: Anyone Going to LTUE?
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 3:23 pm
by Flintlock Tom
Wow! I would love to go, if only to shake Larry Correia's hand.
Sadly, life intrudes.

Re: Anyone Going to LTUE?
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 4:29 pm
by moose42
staylor wrote:I would if i didn't live in Frikkin' California.

That can be fixed you know. All you need is a truck.

Re: Anyone Going to LTUE?
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 11:35 pm
by staylor
moose42 wrote:staylor wrote:I would if i didn't live in Frikkin' California.

That can be fixed you know. All you need is a truck.

Already got a truck and its lookin' more and more likely that I will be living in Nevada by next fall.
Re: Anyone Going to LTUE?
Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 2:45 am
by moose42
Good for you. We'll welcome you to Free America when you leave the green curtain.

Re: Anyone Going to LTUE?
Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 6:19 am
by staylor
moose42 wrote:Good for you. We'll welcome you to Free America when you leave the green curtain.

First thing I'm gonna do when I get back to the world... buy a gun and walk away with it, no waiting period. That's the dream.

Re: Anyone Going to LTUE?
Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 11:50 am
by Cybrludite
Again, my travel funds and time-off budget is tied up with events in March. Besides, with that long a road trip, I'd have to find someone with whom to trade off on the driving. (I refuse to submit to Mineta's Morons anymore.)
Re: Anyone Going to LTUE?
Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 10:38 pm
by moose42
Oh my goodness I just looked at the schedule. There's something I want to go to at nearly EVERY time slot. Some of them have two time slots.
So these are the lectures that I want to go to per time slot. From 9am to 8pm. Holy crap 12 hours per day! Looks like I'm going to need to bring a survival kit full of powerbars, and water. Grin
Thurs
Best and Worst writing advice
Writing Action (Larry Correia)
How to Scare People (Dan Wells)
Building Believable Aliens (Howard)
Time Travel
Plots, Subplots, and Foreshadow (John Brown, Larry)
Contemporary/urban fantasy (Larry Correia)
The Writing Life: How to set goals
Pay it Forward: Help other writers…
Marketing and Publicity
Creating a Fictional Language (Session1)
Creating a Fictional Language (Session1 cont)
Fri
How to research, when to stop, and what to use
How to write a good short story
Main address Steve Keele
Romance vs. Story with Romantic Elements: Injecting romance into saving the world
Writing Group help
Characters Morals Vs authors
Plotstorming from Character
Rewriting to Greatness or... Or Space Travel without Warp
Nothing but crap this time slot.
The Horror, the Horror (Dan wells)
Fictional Language (Session 2) or How to plot a novel in 1 hr.
Fictional Language (Session 2) or Zombies!
Sat
Religion in Sci-Fi or What I wish I had done…
How to recover from writing slumps
Main Address James Dashner
Military on Military SF
Writing Excuses Podcast!
Writing Excuses Podcast continued
Pitching to Agents/ Editors
Memorable Villans (Larry Correia)
Local publishers?
Local publishers or maybe Why we love Lovecraft.