I will be one of the instructors at the Clarion Workshop in San Diego next summer.
If you don't know what Clarion is, or do know but would like more information, there's a website at http://clarion.ucsd.edu/ Right now it still features the info about the 2009 version of the workshop, but they will be updating it for 2010 soon.
Clarion is very competitive, and not everyone who applies will be accepted, but if you're serious about wanting to write SF and fantasy, give it a shot. It's a great program, and an astonishing number of professional writers have come out of Clarion and Clarion West over the decades.
I get a regular stream of emails from beginning writers with questions on all aspects of writing and selling their work, most of which I don't have the time to answer. (Though my website does include a FAQ). Come to Clarion, and you get all those questions (and many more) answered. Though you may not like the answers...
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Writing is the only thing I really care to get serious about.
Y'know, on account of that whole math thing.
Just looking forward to your opinion.
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But, man, $5000 or more for the privilege, and then another $2000 for the missed pay -- I don't see how anyone who's not upper middle class can do it. (and yes, I know about the grants -- even the upper limit of $3000 would only bring the possibility tantalizingly close.) I made it to VP on donations, a scholarship and the meager savings I could scrape from the family budget.
I'm not saying that it should be offered for free. The instructors deserve to be paid and paid well. I'm just saying that I'm bummed that it's out of my reach.
Edited at 2009-08-21 07:17 am (UTC)
Some people just get on the internet and beg for the money, and then promise to pay some of it forward the next year. An idea.
I think they accepted 18 out of 190 something this year. I'll get accepted if I say I regularly read GRRM's blog, right?
Right??!!!
;-)
Also, I wonder if it is appropriate to bring my books and be a fanboy for a couple minutes and beg for signatures. Probably not, but I'll bring the books anyway if I go!
Was a little put off when I saw that I must submit 2 short stories with the application. Currently halfway through a novella (my strongest work to date) and have a full outline for a novel. I'd rather not spend the time away from my current works to write short stories for the application; however, when I saw we get to rub elbows with the guest speakers/instructors over dinner I immediately fired up Word. Novel schmovel!
I'm also thankful that I'm an english major doing a creative writing track and that doing these classes has forced me to have lots of short stories available, however much they may suck :(
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Meanwhile, congrats on Clarion! It's a stellar lineup of instructors this year.