7 p.m. - 8 p.m.	Town Meeting	Severn/Lochraven
Our chairman welcomes everyone to Capclave and introduces our Guest of Honor. There will also be a moderated group discussion of the events of September 11th.
8 p.m. - 9 p.m.	Chocolate Ecstasy	Patuxent
We adjourn the Town Meeting and share chocolate, cookies, milk, and hugs.
9 p.m. - 10 p.m.	Whose Plot Is It Anyway?	Severn/Lochraven
A "game show" based on "Whose Line Is It Anyway" where members of the audience suggest silly plot devices, unusual characters, or strange settings and the panel members come up with quick story synopses.

10 p.m. - 11 p.m.	2001: A Space Opera	Severn/Lochraven
Alexis Gilliland and others give a dramatic reading of this play, first performed at ConStellation.

11 p.m. - Midnight	I, Disclave	Severn/Lochraven
Our Guest of Honor and others relate stories of past Disclaves, the convention that WSFA held before Capclave.

10 a.m. - 11 a.m.	Short Story Construction	Severn/Lochraven
How should you write a short story? Is it better to start with an idea and develop a main character or begin with a main character and build the idea around them? Choosing the viewpoint character - whose story is this? Determining where the story should begin and end. What drives the story to its ending?

11 a.m. - Noon	Tools for the New Writer	Severn/Lochraven
Besides having a significant other with a well-paying job and a good dictionary, what are some are the other "tools" someone hoping to be a writer should possess? Career tips, cures for writer's block and carpal tunnel syndrome, and war stories on dangers that writers may encounter. Stories being pirated on the Internet or overseas, vanity press publishers, plagiarism, and other scams and misdemeanors.

Noon - 1 p.m.	Developing Story Ideas	Severn/Lochraven
It all starts with an idea. How do you nurse an idea to expand it into an actual story? How do you research backgrounds, historical perspectives, scientific details, or foreign locations?

1 p.m. - 2 p.m.	Captioning Joe Mayhew	Severn/Lochraven
Joe may be gone, but his artwork is still around. Remembering Joe Mayhew through his artwork.

2 p.m. - 3 p.m.	The Borderlands of Science Fiction	Severn/Lochraven
Pity the ordinary writer who only has one universe to play with. The science in science fiction - what are the limits, if any? The hard stuff - the stuff that separates cardboard scifi from real science fiction.

3 p.m. - 4 p.m.	Electronic SF Market Summation	Severn/Lochraven
A look at the current on-line and electronic market for SF short fiction and some speculations on the future of story-telling.

4 p.m. - 5 p.m.	The Great Anthologies	Severn/Lochraven
From early works such as Anthony Boucher's A Treasury of Great Science Fiction to Gardner's The Year's Best Science Fiction series, what are some classic anthologies that a reader should track down? Guests will give recommendations for a short fiction anthology reading list.

5 p.m. - 8 p.m.

Dinner Break

8 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.	NASA Presentation	Severn/Lochraven
Slideshow presentation with NASA scientist Drake Deming speaking on "The Current Status of the Search for Extrasolar Planets."

9:30 p.m. - 11 p.m.	GoH Interview	Severn/Lochraven
An interview with our Guest of Honor, Gardner Dozois. It will be followed by cake and autographs in Patuxent.

11 p.m. - Midnight	Buffy's Dead: Get Over It	Severn/Lochraven
The obligatory Buffy the Vampire Slayer panel. Why is Buffy so popular and what does the show do right and wrong? What is the irony of having Sarah Michelle Gellar playing Daphne in the upcoming Scooby Doo movie (and "who's hotter, Daphne or Velma?")?

Midnight - 1 a.m.	Clone of My Own	Severn/Lochraven
Ah, memories of past Disclaves with Gardner's late night panels. Of course, he's a well-respected and dignified magazine editor now. So we may just have to find some other people willing to take his place on a late-night panel exploring the future of sex toys such as the Playmate© home cloning kit.

11 a.m. - Noon	Writers' Groups	Severn/Lochraven
Not the ten-step kind. Can participation in a writer's group help your writing? How do you find or start a writer's group. Does having your work critiqued in writing group workshops help?

Noon - 1 p.m.	Scary Panel	Severn/Lochraven
Ah, a horror writing panel at noon... how enlightened. The horror story sub-genre. What markets are open to short horror fiction? Is horror story writing different from other story forms?

1 p.m. - 2 p.m.	The Graphic Short Story	Severn/Lochraven
Writing for comic books and other visual formats. Telling a story with words and pictures. And the other side, how do you illustrate a story? Is there a market for original Japanese manga type fiction in the United States?

2 p.m. - 3 p.m.	Why I Like Short Stories	Severn/Lochraven
Why write short stories? Why don't professional writers just stick to novels? Nobody gets rich writing short science fiction or fantasy. Is there a challenge that appeals to some writers to crafting a story into a perfect gem? Is it easier to write short fiction?

3 p.m. - 4 p.m.	Mission Debriefing	Severn/Lochraven
Hey, this is DC - we don't do gripe sessions. The end of the very first Capclave. Our chairman offers some parting words and solicits comments from our attendees