More workshop
Jordan is blogging about more workshop experience, this time at the Writers of the Future events (he did Clarion before, in case you missed it). And once again I am in awe and terror.
A workshop would be something I’d be interested in, but I’m not sure there’s anything local, so I’d have to travel. Anyone have any good ones to recommend? It would also be cool to have a familiar face or two there. It seems like a nerve-wracking experience.
September 3rd, 2009 at 5:05 pm
There’s Viable Paradise: http://www.sff.net/paradise/
It’s not local, it’s at Martha’s Vineyard, but it’s only a week, not 6 weeks like Clarion. I’ve thought about going to VP . . . it sounds awesome and terrifying. Mur Lafferty went and talked about her experience on I Should Be Writing, but I don’t remember what episode(s)–it was a while back.
There’s also this place in Portland, OR that does writing workshops: http://atticwritersworkshop.com/
But I think they might be aimed more at literary fiction, poetry and memoirs than speculative fiction.
September 3rd, 2009 at 8:09 pm
Viable Paradise does sound pretty cool.
I always forget how expensive it is. I’d have to save up for a while to go to that.
September 4th, 2009 at 8:51 am
Obviously, I’ve found both workshops to be invaluable. I hope, eventually, to recover the cost from my writing
Oh, and the WotF workshop is free!
September 4th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
Alex,
Talk to KC. Her sci-fi thing in Kansas was amazing and isn’t that close to Texas…aren’t you in Texas??? As a matter of fact, she’s been so busy writing and subbing since, I barely hear from her. Sooo cool.
September 4th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
Very true! I’ll have to look into that one for next year, it sounded pretty awesome.
September 8th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
Hello. I’m here and still alive.
Gay’s right. The Gunn workshop is great. Involving and lots of hard work but not the marathon ordeal that everyone says the Clarions are.
I got lots of good stuff from Jim Gunn, met lots of great people, newbies to the field and old pros, too.
And I came back with the NEED to write and a clearer idea of how to do that.
I brought two complete stories back with me from Kansas, one is at Analog and the other is at Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, and I’ve written seven stories in the seven week since I got back. I’m getting ready to submit the last of those.
Busy, busy, busy.
The Gunn workshop was $500 for the two-week workshop, $500 for two weeks in a dorm room (half that if you’re willing to share a room), and I spent another $250 on food. Plus the transportation, of course, but I don’t know if Lawrence is driving distance for you or not.
September 8th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
Thanks for the info, KC. That sounds pretty affordable. I’ll have to keep an eye on it.