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Clarion Week 4: My Fourth Clarion Story & The Clarion Tree July 20, 2006 Finished my fourth story (about 5,000 words) yesterday morning. I'm not at all happy with it, but I'm finding there's enough in my hastily-put-together Clarion fiction that my fellow students are able to teach me things by critiquing it, even if the stories themselves are undercooked. And the parts that are there I'm unsure enough about that I'd like to see if they're working at all. I'm uncomfortable writing this much sex-related stuff, too much teenage angst, and this unlikeable protagonist, but maybe that's all going to add some interesting tension to the piece. We're here to try new things, right?
Tonight's a poetry slam/party thing. Joe and Gay Haldeman randomly served us a topic and poetry form on Sunday and we'll read the poems tonight. I got cloning for topic and a limerick series for form. I usually hate limericks because they're so easy and unpublishable, but this morning after feeling so drained I was glad it wasn't something that required more thought. Gay says Joe brought his guitar as well, a Martin Backpacker, which I think is the nylon string version just like mine. I hope we'll have time to jam tonight, but I know we've got at least five stories to critique and at least two of them are in the 9,000+ word range.  Too fried to come up with a story for the tree-hugging pics of classmates Felice Kuan and Shveta Thakrar. But they turned out well, and it'll beef up another short post. Click for a larger version of this last photo. Filed under Clarion, Journal, Pretty Pictures  
Comments: Discuss this entry at LiveJournalPretty ladies hugging a tree; what more could you ask for? I'm glad that Jen will be coming up to spend some time with you. It'll definitely make you more sane. (Although the joke for my year was that the amount of sex gotten at Clarion was inversely proportional to the amount of fiction that person produced.) Posted by: Jason Erik Lundberg at July 20, 2006 11:00 AM 
Most of us this year are married or otherwise attached, so we're probably a pretty tame class sex-wise. We joke that we're putting more sexual content in the stories because of this. Posted by: Alex at July 21, 2006 9:40 AM
LOL! You might think it's a joke, but *I* call it sublimation! Posted by: Alan at July 22, 2006 5:11 PM
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