William Reardon’s Blog

After visitng Target & Office Max with my mom, we headed next door to Vroman’s bookstore. A sign of upcoming apperances listed Orson Scott Card appearing on Monday, Sept. 6th. While I didn’t actually know today was the 6th, I did know it was Monday. Damn, I thought — the time of his talk was at 7pm, so I must have just missed him. Except I realized that I had no idea what time it was either, and after flipping open my phone, found out it was 7 o’clock on the dot. Apparently, the fates had scheduled me to see Mr. Card.

Not one to argue, I got directions to where he speaking in the store & headed over. Apparently, he was in there to pimp his new book and a play. I had heard him talk once before, up north, with Neb & Miza. For whatever reason, I liked his first talk more. It could be the audience asked more compelling questions, but it was interesting to hear his views on the war (in general & in Iraq), history, and a few other topics. Not much was asked this time other than “Tell us about you. How do you go about writing?” Feh. I’m not a writer and thus have no interests in how he goes about writing. Actually, even though I’m a developer I have no interest in hearing about how Carmack or Linus codes, so I suppose even if I was a writer, I still wouldn’t care. What the hell does the logistics of writing have anything to do with anything anyway?

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