MediaWest UNCLE Panel

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Since I thought it was a shame that there were only 2 UNCLE panels listed for MW this year, I wracked my brains and came up with a new topic at the last minute. I've heard back from the Programming people that they've accepted it, though it isn't showing on the website list of topics yet.

The topic is:
A. Television: Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Espionage Plot, Character Study or Romance. Slash or gen, what kind
of U.N.C.L.E story do you most like to read or write?

The topic was inspired by a continued conversation I've been having with a (non-UNCLE) fannish friend (hi stormheller) about how much slash can be considered part of the Romance tradition. (Stormy says she's writing more romance; me, I'm usually, though not always, thinking about the action genre end of things.) I think the same thing dichotomy exists in gen, and since I always like seeing the two wings of UNCLE mix, I included both types of fanfic in the description.

My next goal is to get a few people signed up on the panel with me. So, for the UNCLE types on my flist, if you're at all interested in this, and you're going to be at MW, it would be awesome to have you on the panel.

The instructions for signing up are here

Comments

[stormheller.livejournal.com]

Totally not the point of your post, but a little relevant anyway.

I've been giving it more thought (surprise!) and I think sometimes I write "action adventure/hero's journey" and sometimes romance. It's fairly easy to add a romance element to action/adventure, but according to Brian Henry's writing class, romance has more internal conflict, whereas the quest-y stuff has more external conflict. I figure it has more to do with which is the central theme and which is the secondary. (Hey, didn't you say something like that?)

I'm going to ask Cindy Walker about it at her panel this year, if only I can come up with some coherent way of wording my question/observation.

~ Stormy (a little knowledge is a dangerous thing)

[graculus.livejournal.com]

Can't we just come along and heckle? ;)

[faramir-boromir.livejournal.com]

Nope, not replying about the panel, since I'd have nothing to say.

But it's in Lansing, at the end of May. Road trip?!

[green-key.livejournal.com]

I'll bite. Sounds like fun. I'll register for the panel tonight, if it's okay by you.

[st-crispins.livejournal.com]

Apropos of your topic, you may have missed the discussion on my LJ here:

http://st-crispins.livejournal.com/174574.html

(note there are three parts ---the link goes to the third and the other parts are linked there.)