Kingdom of Knuffel

I disbelieve that you meet people. Pictures or it didn't happen.
Did you corrupt any of the dancelines? Seems like they would appreciate your WW getup.
Old age at 7??? Who are these odd new-age cat people? Is old age half their lives now? This sounds like a plot by the funerary industrial complex.

There's a reason people don't do that.
Noooo! Tacking action to dialogue tags is a bad habit! You should know that!
Remove your silly nonsense post-haste!

I know. But you also mentioned walking at the convention. So.

Much more buff.

There might be some very unfortunate video evidence. I was roped into doing something for the local news??? With other Star Wars cosplayers??? The reporter hasn't emailed me about it, so I assume it's not out yet, but I don't intend to look at it when it is. Or maybe she just won't email me, and I can live my life in peace.
Some of the tinier dancers wanted photos with me. It was cute, but I was awkward, because what is a child? What do you say to a child?
Coral and I both agree that she's not old. I didn't know what to say to the vet when she said older cats should have appointments every 6 months. Will they get mad at me if I skip the 6-month appointment and just come in next year? I don't want to be lectured.

We must read very different writing advice. I've literally never seen anyone condemn attaching action to dialogue tags, and it doesn't bother me when I'm reading. What, exactly, is supposed to be bad about it? I put so much action/narration interspersed with dialogue, and usually stack about six clauses into a sentence anyway, that I think it might seem weirder to leave dialogue tags alone. I'm quite willing to be persuaded, though.

The convention did include a bit of walking, because it was about 1000 square feet of convention spread over a 10,000 square foot space. It's apparently moving for next year. Maybe into a small hotel, or someone's yard, or something.

Linksssssssssssss
That sounds cute. I hope you turned them into cosplayers.
Just ignore the vet. Squeak the 20-year-old cat says Coral isn't old and does not require two appointments per year.

It's a show-don't-tell problem. If you need the tag action, your dialogue isn't working hard enough. I don't think it's as bad as using a pile of alternatives to "said". But I definitely use a version of it, just missing "said", so I must not have a huge problem with it. Perhaps an ideal version of me wouldn't use it so much? Then again, I'm not a fan of talking head dialogue, either. All things in moderation.

Student union. That is the historical home for most fan conventions. That or a library. What sort of GoHs did they have?

If the world is just and merciful, there will be no links. I did not conduct myself well in that video. I am the awkwardest cosplayer.
She might genuinely need tooth brushing, though. I care about her teeth. That's the kicker, isn't it--I feel like I can't blow off any of this vet's recommendations without the tacit admittance that I hate about my cat and want her to die horribly.

Yeah, that's probably true. Why show when you can tell, a lot? Probably my #1 problem. Sometimes I'll reread my old writing and find a passage that tells things even though I've already shown them, like I think my readers are idiots.
Do you have those sorts of issues in your writing, that you know crop up over and over again but that you never notice while you're doing them?

They had a lot of very minor GOHs. Minor Star Trek actors, semi-local professional cosplayers, young adult authors, some artists. Again, like Minicon, but without the occasional big-name author.

"people ask advice from a skeleton astrology roleplay blog and people are surprised when they get answers in character"
"and also finding a certified therapist is probably more likely to help then yelling at a skeleton"
-Serious quotes discussing a serious issue. Modern life is so freaking weird.

Links! Links! Links!
Then brush her teeth. You can do that without paying for a visit twice a year. We've never needed that for our other cats.

That's most people's problem. It's the problem. Go get some fruit.
That's what... editing... is for.
Mostly no. The things I really care about, I watch while writing. I guess I will sometimes get stuck on an unusual word and use it way too much for a few paragraphs. Then it disappears and is replaced by something else.

Sounds like a low-quality for-profit con. Have they considered consolidating their effort on a few better GoHs?

I do not understand the skeleton thing. What are you talking about and how did this come up?

I'm considering fleeing to find another vet with lower expectations of me. Is that the coward's way out? I really don't want to be judged.

Okay. Fruit. Sigh.
I will get around to editing those stories I promised you. I WILL. Maybe I will even remove up to 3% of the telling!
If you don't have persistent issues, then what's the problem with the material you won't let me read? Transient issues?

I think it's less that the con is low-quality and for-profit than it is that all the organizers are old and want to attract young people. Did I mention that it's similar to Minicon, demographically? So many old fogies. But there's also a youth contingent, and I think the old people want the young people to keep coming, so that the convention can persist, but they're not really sure what young people want.
Apparently this was Marcon's 53 year, so some age-related stress is understandable.

Eh, you don't need to understand it. I just wanted you to have to look at the sort of nonsense I witness on tumblr. That blog that gives the weird horoscopes? People kept writing to it with serious life questions and expecting it to be their therapist.

It's not really that bad to be judged by a hipster. They probably pay too much for coffee.

Sure. You'll edit yours just like I'll edit mine. I believe you completely.
Transient End-of-NaNo issues. What did I just write? What is this garbage? What is English? Did I plot this far? The answer to each question is one long, drawn out zombie moan. I also saved some stuff I wasn't comfortable writing until the end, and yeah, it was uncomfortable.

That sounds awkward. Are there not any young people cons in Ohio? Why can't the old people con just be itself? Did they have a survey and have you gifted them with your opinions yet?

They deserve everything they get. Did they even read it?

Ten days until the deal expire, Merch-o. Hope that story is shaping up. Mine... isn't. My urge to do literally anything else increases exponentially whenever I think of editing.
My writing doesn't get noticeably worse at the end of NaNo unless I've run out of planned material, which doesn't happen often. Most of my issues are constant, and at their worst when I have the least idea of where I'm going.
By "wasn't comfortable writing", are you referring to PORN?

There are young people cons in Ohio. I believe that the problem with Marcon is that all the old people decided to bring their children, and then their children brought friends, and now no one is entirely sure what the con is for.
There was no survey, but I put a comment in their comment box that they need to get rid of this hour-and-fifteen-minute panel schedule with fifteen-minute passing times. A girl needs time to pee every now and then. No panel needs the extra fifteen minutes.

Well. In the latest chapter of "The Instant Pot ruined my life", I've taken up jogging. My body is confused. Am I being pursued? Am I hunting something? I feel like a Sim that was told to work on its Athletic skill for the first time. Where did all my marching band fitness go?

Still haven't edited any of it! Editing it might come down to cutting out a couple of scenes and fixing two typos and calling it good enough.
I am referring to scenes involving characters I don't know very well, or lots of handwaving on subjects I really, really don't know, or politics. Enjoying your time in the gutter?

Tell them to get off your lawn. It will solve all of the problems. They will wonder when it became your lawn.
I thought cosplayers surgically removed their need to pee. Are you not a real cosplayer? Are you not getting an appearance fee?

You've taken up jogging to hunt food for the Pot? I don't understand.
Where do you jog? You never had any desire to jog before. Things must be dire.
You might find your marching band fitness hiding under your desk, where you sit for long hours doing nothing, or at the bottom of your Instant Pot, which fills you with food.

Wait. You have two typos that you know are there, and you haven't bothered to fix them yet? That is literally the easiest edit. You can do it instantly. Just... do it.
I want to try the recommended editing style of manually retyping the whole thing, because that sounds like it would really work for me, but it also sounds like a lot of effort. Have you ever tried it?
I am enjoying my time in the gutter. It's my happy place. Anyway, you had mentioned having a naughty fade-to-black at one point, so how should I know that there's no porn?

I don't think it's my lawn, though. These old people were really friendly--not like Minicon old people. They asked me for my opinion, as a young person, when I was one of the only young people in the room, instead of making curmudgeonly comments about youths.
I am not a real cosplayer. You found me out. One of the GoH cosplayers said in a panel that he can go eight or nine hours without peeing, and my bladder cried out in sympathetic horror. Men are not humans.

My thighs have started rubbing together when I walk. I blame the Pot. This could not be allowed to go on. Ergo, jogging.
I jog near my apartment. There's a nice trail that I think goes through the agricultural part of campus, although I haven't gone very far down it. Farther every day! Or something.
Sometimes I encounter other joggers, and they give me this little smile-and-wave, like they think that I'm one of them. I feel like an imposter. Or like that Hello Fellow Kids meme.