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Clarion Week 3: My Third Clarion Story July 10, 2006 Kind of went into a panic mode to finish my third story by this morning. Last week we had 22 stories (essentially everyone turned in something) which led to six hour critique sessions and one night with as many as 6 stories to critique. Two people have stories for today, and we realized yesterday that only two people were planning on handing in stories tomorrow (and everyone was planning on handing in stories during the week). Which means toward the end of the week we have a chance of critiquing at least five a night. I didn't want to contribute to the bottleneck, and I thought it would be an interesting challenge to see exactly how quickly I could push myself to get to a serviceable draft. I could have stood to wait another day before submitting, but I'm not too embarassed at what I'm turning in. On the sentence level, I'm having trouble with the flow of this piece, but most of the beats I want are in there. Still this is probably the roughest draft I'm comfortable with showing anyone, and it's only 4,100 words. Guess all that training paid off after all. I should find out tomorrow whether the story makes any sense at this stage. On to the next one. |
