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Back to Journal  « Clarion Week 1: Getting There is Half the Something | Clarion Week 1: My First Clarion Story | Clarion Week 1: Pre-Critique Thoughts » Clarion Week 1: My First Clarion Story June 27, 2006 Just finished and submitted my first Clarion story. I was close to the deadline, so I don't know whether the class will receive it today for critique for tomorrow, but I'm in no hurry. I just wanted so submit something quick so Samuel R Delany (he wants us to call him Chip, but it's Samuel R Delany!) doesn't choose one of my application stories for the class to critique. To prove what very different species my novelettes and flash fiction stories are (the only two prose lengths I've been able to write in the last three years): If I underestimate the final wordcount of my novelettes by 5,000 words or more, I overestimate the wordcount of flash fiction by half. What'd I say yesterday: 1,200 words? Yeah, it ended up at 650 words and it's still not as tight as it could be. I don't think it needs to be any longer. I'm tempted to talk about its weaknesses--the ones I know about--but for crying out loud: I just threw my classmates a softball at 650 words, which even I can read in a few minutes. How much easier do I need to make it? Heh. At least until I get the critiques, I'm going to assume that early morning writing works for me. Missed a phone call from Jen last night. Hope it's the exception, not the first of a pattern. internet went down again this morning a few minutes after I sent my story, so I'll post this later I guess. (came back up just before 8AM). Filed under Clarion, Journal, Prose and Poetry  
Comments: Discuss this entry at LiveJournalI was tempted to tell you waht Mr. Delaney likes to be called, but I din't wanna seem like a know-it-all. I got my info from here: http://www.wbai.org/programs/hourofthewolf/index.php which served as a "podcast" of science fiction way before there were any such things as "blogs". (I just listened to the radio, dontcha know.) Anyway, cheers, mate! Gratz and when can we read it? Posted by: Alan at June 27, 2006 7:41 PM 
Thanks, Alan. I've been reading Delany for years and I've known he goes by Chip informally; I just still feel like such a kid who should call his superiors "Mister," or at least "Your Highness." Posted by: Alex at July 1, 2006 9:11 AM
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Alex Wilson writes fiction and comics in Carrboro, NC. His work has appeared/will appear in Asimov's Science Fiction, The Rambler, LCRW, Weird Tales, The Florida Review, Futurismic, ChiZine, Pif, and Dragon. Locus Magazine has called him a "promising new writer," and Publishers Weekly also has nice things to say. Alex runs the audiobook project/podcast Telltale Weekly and the writer wiki Guidevines. He publishes the minicomic/zine Inconsequential Art. He is a 2006 Clarion graduate.  
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