WRITER'S BLO(G/CK)

If all went according to plan, I’m currently in Portland attending the final day of the Bricks Cascade 2022 LEGO fan convention.   Whoo!   I’m sure that I’m having a blast.   Looking at MOCs, discussing LEGO, and seeing the smiling faces (well, eyes and foreheads, anyway) of my AFOL friends.   But it is Sunday.   And I try to always post on Sundays and Wednesdays, so that means that I have to write a piece and upload it, scheduling it to auto-post while I’m gone.   (Assuming that I can figure out how… it’s something I haven’t tried yet on this particular platform.)   I’m planning on writing about the con after the con.   Hopefully a very happy post filled with sunshine and (hypoallergenic) kittens.   So today, let’s look at the one real concern that I have for the con.   Getting sick.   Covid-19 According to the Bricks Cascade website, proof of vaccination (or a very, very, very recent negative Covid test) is required to enter the convention venue.   Also, all attendees

Early tomorrow morning I leave for Bricks Cascade 2022.   Whoo!   Tonight I have to pack.   What does an Adult Fan of LEGO pack for a convention trip?   Man-oh-man, what doesn’t an AFOL pack for a convention trip?   Read on. Miscellaneous Convention-Goer Stuff It starts off with a bunch of boring stuff tossed into a suitcase.   Several changes of clothing.   A clean empty garbage bag (for separating clean from dirty clothes for their suitcase ride home).   A bottle of Neutrogena body wash in a Ziploc bag.   (I know that hotel rooms come with their own supply of soap, but I have a nasty allergy to most soaps, and have to stick to Neutrogena products or risk a full body rash.   And the Ziploc bag?   You only need to learn a lesson about liquid soap coming open in your suitcase that one time.)   A box of plastic silverware.   Medications.   A cellphone charger.   Stuff like that.   Then it’s some food packed into a grocery bag.   Snacks.   Sandwich fixings.   Instant oatmeal fo

I’m in no huge hurry to get there, but I do eventually plan to post about some of the writing projects I’ve thought up but have been unable to do thanks to my writer’s block.   But before I get there though, I thought it might be good to take a look at what I actually have written prior to writer’s block taking up residence in my brain.   Most of the early stuff I talk about here is pretty much lost to time.   I’d say pretty much everything prior to “Legend of the V’Thashi” no longer exists.   My list of written works isn’t all that long.   One of the reasons for that is because I’ve always seemed to be uncompelled to write without a deadline in place.   I could have the greatest story idea in the world burning a hole in my brain, and without a deadline I would just sit there twiddling my thumbs.   And besides that, I was still (relatively) young.   So what was the rush?   I mean, I had all the time in the world, right?   ( Never think that.   Not ever.)     Early Works When I