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Back to Journal  « Clarion Week 1: My First Clarion Story | Clarion Week 1: Pre-Critique Thoughts | Clarion Week 1: Chip and Me » Clarion Week 1: Pre-Critique Thoughts June 28, 2006 My first Clarion story will be critiqued today. Is it strange that I feel more anxiety about the critiques I give than I do about the ones I'll be receiving? Next story's coming along surprisingly well, very different than this first one and much more a traditional, linear science fiction story than I think any of my previous work. Not flash fiction and I hope not a novelette. I kicked my butt into gear last night and this morning because I've found that the only way to feel that judgments about my work are not judgments about me personally, is to be well into my next work by the time I receive said judgments. With submissions and rejection, this means I usually have a month or more to invest myself in a new project. The biggest hurry would probably be F&SF's 8-10 day return time. At Clarion I get a day. Hope that's enough perspective for me to think: "It sucked? Yeah, maybe, but I wrote that, like, 24 hours ago. You should see the cool shit I'm working on today. I'm such a better writer today than the guy was who wrote that piece you just eviscerated." We do what we have to, to get through the day. |
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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, Weird Tales, The Florida Review, Futurismic, Shimmer, ChiZine, FutureQuake, 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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