I had the distinct pleasure of getting to hear Felicia Day talk about a lot of her projects, her passions, her gaming, and so very much more, during my time at Farpoint this past weekend. Farpoint is a fan-run science fiction and fantasy convention held in Maryland (USA), and Felicia Day was one of the headlining guests for 2010.

In addition to getting to interview her personally, I also got to sit in on her Saturday question and answer session. In it, she discussed everything from the upcoming comic book inspired by The Guild, promoting projects via new media, what it was like to kiss “stunt guy,” as well as the gaming habits of fellow guildie Jeff Lewis.

Below is part one of a series of highlights from that Q&A session. Since it was an hour long, not every single question and answer is represented here. However, I've tried to select the “best of” to share with you. Part two will be posted tomorrow, so be sure to check back for it!

Felicia on The Guild's upcoming comic books...

“Really challenging to write, to be honest with you. My only other writing experience has been screen plays, which is a very abbreviated sort of writing. It's not like writing a novel. You have to be pretty concise. But comics takes that to a whole new level, and it really made me respect the art of comic writing in a way that I hadn't before, because, I didn't know this [laughs] and when I signed the contract it was like 'oh I have to describe the panels? Uh oh! I don't do that in screenplays!'

“So you really have to be very explicit in what's going on in each panel and plus, you don't have very much room for dialogue. So The Guild is kinda the opposite of the comic, in a way. I have no room, no money for locations, but I have lots of room for dialogue. And then I kinda had to kind of turn everything with the show on its head. You can't have any more dialogue, and you have to go, you know, out of this location. […] It was a lot of hair pulling, and whining, but I got it done and I'm very proud of it!”