Norwescon Day 2

Today went pretty well, I don't feel quite so burned out. I went to an early morning koffee klatch, where there was a manageable number of people. Same at dinner. I got to get to know mareklamo better, and met jkling.
I met both my Norwescon goals, which was to buy Spin for my dad, and meet mdhenry, who's just as awesome as he seems in his blog. We talked about black comedies, and realized we couldn't remember the titles of any, though we knew which ones we were talking about.

One of the things my critique did for me was to point out glaring problems I really should have noticed, and kind of did, but didn't appreciate. I knew my heroine needed fixing, and I got some good, concrete ideas on fixing a problem I've already made a lot of progress on. But the worst problem, I think, was that my villain is flat as a pancake. I really didn't give him any backstory beyond his unusual age. Now, of course, I'm like, "why the hell did I let myself get away with that?" So I spent my down time scribbling about him in a notebook, and having a lot of fun with it.

Of course, I'm kicking myself for not entering in vital worldbuilding data into Mori. I need to know the dates the different Hellgates opened up, and it's all written in a random notebook at home somewhere. ~>:(