I wanted to share my conjecture about how Clarion West (and perhaps Clarion UCSD) puts together their classes, based entirely on my experience. The workshop is run by humans who have been doing this for a very long time. In fact, running the workshop is a bit like a long, slow workshop in how to [...]
Thursday, January 3, 2013
My Clarion West littermate Huw had a party on Sunday, ostensibly a year-end party, but also a birthday celebration. Just so no one else gets jealous(!), he got a full painting on canvas and you didn’t because I made him another piece of art at CW that was vandalized by a well-meaning-but-temporarily-misguided classmate. I figured [...]
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Sale: On Sunday, the story I wrote for my sixth week at Clarion West was accepted for publication at Lightspeed Magazine. HOORAY! I love this story, currently titled “Breathless in the Deep,” because I can spot much of what I learned at the workshop–even though I decided that last week not to “try,” but instead [...]
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Here is my second post this year about Thanksgiving. (If you missed it, here’s the first.) Sorry this one is late; it was harder to write than I expected. Don’t feel obligated to read this–it does have more text than photos, and no cute animal videos. But these posts are going here for me, because [...]
Thursday, November 22, 2012
There will be two posts this year about Thanksgiving. I realize everyone is making these posts, and I’m sorry to clutter your feed with multiple yammerings about what a jackpot this year has been for me, but the truth is I doubt most of you will read these anyway. They’re long, and there’s more text [...]
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Shut up, I’m excited. And instead of making you hear about it every day for the whole month, I have devised a clever system so you will only hear about it five times. I am a magnanimous blogger who understands that you don’t actually care about my silly project, which is basically a composite [...]
Thursday, September 20, 2012
In some ways, Clarion West changed the way I was beginning doodles and drawings. I’m not sure I’m prepared to elaborate quite yet; I’m still working on how to describe the association I’m making between two entirely different craft techniques. The unrefined, bumbling version is this: Ideally in my fiction I will suggest how the [...]
People keep asking, “So, what’s Clarion West like?” I don’t think I could describe the whole experience, but I think what they want is to know what I’m doing with my time. So: I critique anywhere from 10,000 to 25,000 words and try to write at least 500 words each night. The latter mostly doesn’t [...]
My mohawk works backward from normal hair. It looks best in the morning when I wake up, and gets progressively limper and more boring throughout the day. Here I illustrate how my hair matches my meal. It was pointed out to me by my classmates. They don’t have rainbow mohawks but they will by the [...]
