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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. Filed under Clarion, Journal  
Comments: Discuss this entry at LiveJournalby Alex Wilson. This is from an online journal/blog I kept from 1998-2009. Back to alexwilson.com. |