{"id":3414,"date":"2016-09-02T19:34:57","date_gmt":"2016-09-03T02:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=3414"},"modified":"2017-03-26T15:02:15","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T22:02:15","slug":"con-crud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/02\/con-crud\/","title":{"rendered":"Con Crud!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So, I had all sorts of plans to post on my upcoming panels and the ambience of Dragon Con, but I overslept. Not by, like, an hour, or two hours, but more like eight<\/em> hours. Sure, I got up and killed my alarms, a few times, but what really happened as I kept trying to get up and kept crashing out was that I realized I had caught a case of con crud.<\/p>\n

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Science fiction conventions gather an enormous amount of people, and hence, their diseases, and hence: con crud, that mysterious illness that hits you a day or two after you get to a con. I know a lot of people who have been knocked out by it, but it’s hit me hard only two or three times.<\/p>\n

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This time, I ended up sleeping on and off for twelve hours out of sixteen. Fortunately I didn’t get the cough or sniffles, though I felt them starting. But I rested up, and got up when I felt rested, and even though I missed hitting the dealer’s room today, I had a lot of fun at my two panels.<\/p>\n

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So what I’m saying is, be good to yourself. It’s easy, when you’re at a con on a mission, to get caught up on all the things you could do. Well, do the things you should do, take care of yourself, and relax: cons will roll around again, and you want to be healthy enough to survive them.<\/p>\n

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Up tomorrow, 10AM: You’ve sold your first book, now what? A bunch of people much more experienced than me tell you what to do when you’re facing book two. Oh, and I’ll be there. At 2:30PM, I’ll be talking about synopses that will sell – or not sell – your book. And at 10PM, I’ll be talking about fun ways to kill your character. Oh, hell, here’s the whole list:<\/p>\n