Weekly Challenge: That Book

Your challenge this week involves books.

I'm sure there's many books you wish were written to help you in your career.  So ask yourself if there was one book on one subject, what would it be?

* What would it cover?
* What kind of audience would it be pitched to?
* What extra information would it include – a good bibliography, web links, or something else?
* How up-to-date would it be or have to be?  Yearly, every two years?

Sit down and ask what this special book would be.  Take ten minutes or so.

Your next step:
1) Break the book down into search terms – and go to Amazon.com, google.com, etc. and do an actual search.  See if you can find what you want or find something close.
2) What would you have to do or learn to write this ideal book yourself?  Perhaps that's something you can do in the future . . .

– Steven Savage

The Disorientation Of The Ideal Job

Steve_Color_smYou have that dream job that will merge your fandom into your career by being a translator for a major anime company.  You have a career dream that takes your geekery to new heights – that job you hope to get as a game programer.  You have dreams.

Yet, something is wrong.  You see that ultimate job coming, hope for that job, or got that job.  Yet you wonder . . . is this right?

Trust me, it happens.

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Convention Idea – Leverage local workshops

The roundup of convention ideas is here.

Most conventions that have pro-fan panels have workshops, from cosplay, to writing, to graphics.  These are well-loved and well-recieved and a great way to impart serious knowledge in a fun situation.

Stocking a good workshop is hard as, simply, you have to find people that know how to run them and know what they're talking about.  For small conventions, or ones adding more pro-fan panels you may want to add more workshops, but you're not sure how to get the people to do them.

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