Writing panel ideas

[annathepiper]

So I've been asked by awritersweekend for panel ideas for next year's conference (this year's being nailed down already and taking place at the very end of this month). I've already thought of a couple, both of which come out of my online gaming/roleplay experience:

• Writing POV characters that aren't your gender. I used to get semi-regularly boggled at for playing male characters on various games, and more than once I've been boggled at by other writers who have difficulty getting into the mindset of writing a character that isn't their own gender.
  
  
• Jumping from online gaming to writing and what skills are transferrable. I've identified at least four writing-related skills I've practiced during my RP years: character development (this certainly being the biggest, for the games where I've had to apply for characters with special backgrounds and/or abilities), plot development, how to effectively describe an action, and how to collaborate with others on a group work.

Anybody up for adding to this list? If you were going to attend a writing conference, what unusual panel topic would you like to see?

(x-posted between my journal and scuzzboppers)

Comments

[wildshadowstar.livejournal.com]

Before I answer, I'd like to know what's been discussed recently so as to not repeat something.

[annathepiper]

If you look here, you can see the stuff that's on the schedule for this year.

I never got around to posting about the 2006 Writer's Weekend, but if you check these earlier posts of mine and skim down a bit, you can get to my 2004 and 2005 posts that talk about the panels I attended in those years.