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Back to Journal  « Paying for Clarion | Narcissism and the Wannabe Clarionite | Acceptance 63 - ASIMOV'S! » Narcissism and the Wannabe Clarionite May 11, 2006 So a few days ago I posted the Clarion student list and made some joke about how "I find myself almost as equally intimidated by my fellow students as I am of my instructors." What I didn't know was how insecure my instructors were. Apparently HALF of them were so insulted by this that last week they had to go out and win Nebula Awards just, I don't know, to feel better about themselves? To put me in my place? I can't think of any other reason anyone would want to win a major industry award. So congrats to Clarion instructors Holly Black, Joe Haldeman, and Kelly Link (Bookends, Ms. Link?), and, okay, you win. My instructors are more intimidating than any of my fellow students. Now, was it worth it? Was it worth writing great stories, getting them published to great peer and audience acclaim, and winning Nebula Awards, if all you wanted was to see me sweat? Because I don't see how those statues are going to fill the dead place you call... Okay, it was a two-paragraph joke at best and I got greedy. Sorry. Lesson learned. In other Clarion news: I met (very briefly) Delany when he spoke at nearby Duke for The Festival of the Book. He was just as intelligent as I expected from his writing, but much more friendly and approachable (it was that intimidation-worry again). And it turns out a college theatre buddy of mine, Kirk Domer, is a faculty member at MSU and works with Clarion Director Liz Zernechel in their theatre department. I don't think I've seen Kirk since my wedding. Finally: I got a great, semi-related phone call today. I'm going to wait and see what happens before I say anything else about it. But if this morning I wasn't yet fully out of that funk I've had since March, then I think I am now. Stay tuned. Filed under Clarion, Journal  
Comments: Discuss this entry at LiveJournalYeah, I heard they wanted to win only so that they could freak us out and blow our miiiiiiiiinds. It worked. ::puts bucket over head:: Posted by: Livia Llewellyn at May 11, 2006 8:45 PM 
Hee, hee. You are always entertaining. :) Posted by: Shveta at May 11, 2006 11:54 PM
Yeah, but is Delany's beard as intimidating in person as it is in his picture? ;) Posted by: Aimee Poynter at May 12, 2006 9:57 AM
Thanks, Livia and Shveta. No, Aimee, it surprisingly wasn't! Honestly. It was more Santa Claus than Rob Zombie. Posted by: Alex at May 12, 2006 10:15 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, 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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