Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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  • Mood: geeky
  • Music: The Band Perry, "If I Die Young."

Seanan's Guide to Surviving the San Diego International Comic Convention, 2013 Edition.

Every year around this time, someone says to me "Gosh, I've never been to the San Diego International Comic Convention before. I don't see what the big deal is. I really don't believe it's as big as everybody tries to make me think it is." And every year, I smack myself in the head and update this guide and pray for their survival.

Since I've been posting these obsessively-detailed Guides to Comicon on a yearly basis for some time now, I strongly suspect these people are being aimed at me. But since I love you all (those of you I know, anyway; I am well-inclined by amiably indifferent toward those of you who just came in out of the cold), and want you to have the best convention experience you possibly can, I have once again updated my Handy-Dandy Survival Guide to the San Diego International Comic Convention. See? It's handy and dandy, and that means it must be good! This guide includes tips on:

* Reaching the convention alive.
* Getting a hotel room.
* Enjoying/surviving the con.
* Things to do at the con.
* Eating food.
* Staying healthy and in a good mental place.
* Not getting killed by your friends.
* Budgeting.
* Bathing.

It is also heavily biased toward my own opinions on all these things, because hello, totally me. But I'm honest about my biases, and I'll be factual whenever it's fact, rather than opinion. (In short, don't expect me to falsify hotel room rates to suit my own ideas of "fair," but don't expect me to recommend a good Thai place, either.)

Ready? Okay!

( Click here for Seanan's handy-dandy Comicon survival guide! Read and be enlightened in all the ways that matter, which is to say, all the ways that Seanan actually thought of. Freshly updated for 2013.Collapse )
Tags: a few facts, con prep, in the wild
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lapislaz

July 15 2013, 18:00:13 UTC 3 years ago

Would it be OK for an edited version of this to appear in WesterCon 68 publicity and/or program book?

seanan_mcguire

July 25 2013, 16:19:13 UTC 3 years ago

It would have to be VERY edited, since I can't imagine most of this would apply to smaller conventions. Given that we have two years to come up with the equivalent, why don't we table this and check back around the time the program book is being put together?

lapislaz

July 25 2013, 19:02:27 UTC 3 years ago

I'll have our Guest Liaison put it on her plate of things. Thanks.
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