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Back to Journal  « Clarion Week 5: Ten More Days... | Clarion Week 5: A Laugh Observed and The Happy Dance | Clarion Week 5: Ouch » Clarion Week 5: A Laugh Observed and The Happy Dance July 29, 2006 My fifth story went over much better than I expected. In fact, I think even the people who didn't like it, still liked it better than I did. I had worried that the story was too heavy-handed with the theme, but most people didn't even see it. Kelly Link and Holly Black both had very positive things to say about the story, which surprised me as well. I think they both gave this story the shortest critiques they've given all week. I'm not so sure this is a good thing as I'm almost afraid to show them any more of my writing now.
At Clarion so far, I've done two "serious" stories. This is my third "humorous" story.
I'll have to crosscheck my notes to make sure I'm right about this, but I think it's interesting that those who enjoyed the humor in my first piece (the flash fiction I turned in after only a few days at Clarion) have not enjoyed my subsequent humor pieces at all. Which means I'm either really stagnant or really inconsistent in my humor style. After a long week, a handful of us tried to go to a karaoke bar (Fridays at Crunchy's, across from Archives) last night. As Brad put it, they were using a toy karaoke machine that you might give to your child. We couldn't find a table where we could see or hear the "stage," and five feet away from the singer, you couldn't hear the music (and her/his voice only sporadically). So we bailed and went to Harper's, and got some dancing in before bedtime. It's too bad. I'm a better singer than I am a dancer, and it's been about a decade since I've done karaoke. Decide amongst yourselves whether these photos were taken in the critique circle or at Harper's.
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Comments: Discuss this entry at LiveJournalWe should have guessed from the name "Crunchy's" that it probably wouldn't be what Felice had in mind. ;) Posted by: Shveta at July 29, 2006 3:03 PM 
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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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