Later this week, my beloved and I will be heading to Gaithersburg, Maryland, for CapClave! It’s the first science fiction convention we’ll have attended in over 20 years.

CapClave is a small literary science fiction convention that offers workshops for writers, as well as discussions, readings, and presentations. I’ve signed up for a workshop that I’m pretty excited about, but more on that after I get back. The convention’s focus is on short fiction, so I’m taking along my short stories, novelettes, and novellas. Today, I’m brainstorming some ideas that I might be using in the workshops. This is going to be so much fun.

The trick for me, given my health problems, will be not getting sick. I plan to take a cooler full of food that I can safely eat, and not eat anything else the entire weekend. Truthfully, food I can’t eat no longer appeals to me very much, no matter how good it tastes, so this resolve won’t be so very hard to stick to, as long as I keep tasties that I can eat with me at all times. I don’t intend to be prostrate with chest pain when there’s a discussion I desperately want to attend. Nuh-uh, no way.

And now we return you to your regularly scheduled web-surfing.