Clarion: Into Week 6
Jul. 30th, 2007 01:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellenkushnerWent to ComicCon this morning, signed lots of books at the Bantam booth, and met the lovely ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
annimee (and possibly other LJ users who were too shy to 'fess up). Had a wonderful lunch with Sara Ryan, and got her permission to quote her LiveJournal entry about sequels - but now I've decided to Link to it instead. I'd love to see what you think. Sara was one of my Clarion students the first time I ever taught. She was the Baby of the class, and now look at her! I can't wait to see what our current class does in the coming years.
Tomorrow morning we are workshopping 3 new stories (which means, Gentle Reader, listening to 18 people go around the table critiquing each story, and then coming up with something wise to say ourselves about each one that somehow teaches everyone a Valuable Lesson), and in the afternoon Delia & I have individual conferences with 3 students, centered around a story each of them would like to revise. That makes 6 stories to read and comment on. I thought we'd have the weekend to achieve this, but between ComicCon and a number of other workshop-related things, I was So Wrong. Then 3 more workshop stories on Tuesday morning (for which we must find time to read on Monday), plus a mere 2 individual conferences, ditto. Thursday is our last full day. There'll be tears, there'll be laughter. And more good stories.
annimee (and possibly other LJ users who were too shy to 'fess up). Had a wonderful lunch with Sara Ryan, and got her permission to quote her LiveJournal entry about sequels - but now I've decided to Link to it instead. I'd love to see what you think. Sara was one of my Clarion students the first time I ever taught. She was the Baby of the class, and now look at her! I can't wait to see what our current class does in the coming years.Tomorrow morning we are workshopping 3 new stories (which means, Gentle Reader, listening to 18 people go around the table critiquing each story, and then coming up with something wise to say ourselves about each one that somehow teaches everyone a Valuable Lesson), and in the afternoon Delia & I have individual conferences with 3 students, centered around a story each of them would like to revise. That makes 6 stories to read and comment on. I thought we'd have the weekend to achieve this, but between ComicCon and a number of other workshop-related things, I was So Wrong. Then 3 more workshop stories on Tuesday morning (for which we must find time to read on Monday), plus a mere 2 individual conferences, ditto. Thursday is our last full day. There'll be tears, there'll be laughter. And more good stories.