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April 05, 2004

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I spent most of my weekend up by Lake Tahoe, being what is generously termed a "guest editor" at a writing workshop. Vagueness of phrasing because, well, it wasn't a particularly strenuous guest-editor gig. I talked about markets and story structure during dinner prep, and had a lot of conversations about books and short stories. I'm not saying that I wasn't possibly useful or interesting for the writers, I'm just saying that the work/fun ratio skewed decidedly in my favor.

These writing workshops, they're a great thing. I'm not even talking about the big ones, the Clarions (East and West and South) and Odyssey and Viable Paradise. I mean these little ones, the thrown-together collaborative ones organized by writers for writers. The ones that are as much vacation retreat as writing workshop.

It's not just that they're fun, although they're a lot of fun. And it's not just the writing critiques, although I gather that everyone at the workshop found the critique sessions really useful (and at least a couple of them have already sent off their workshop stories to various markets). It's the whole community thing. I think it's a lot easier to feel good about your work if you can talk to other people who understand what you're doing.

Of course, it never hurts if that talking is in a context that also involves hot tubs, s'mores, and demon marshmallow armies.

Posted by Susan at April 5, 2004 02:26 PM

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