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aithneI poke my head above the transom, wobbling on a mound of work I have not done, and greet LJ, which I have generally not beiing paying attention to.
This week's instructor was Elizabeth Bear, aka![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
matociquala, and she was an absolutely amazing teacher. We had no idea that this was her first Claron West teaching run until she mentioned it mid-week. By the end of the week, I just wanted to put Bear in my pocket and take her home with me; alas, we all have lives waiting for us at home, and she has a dog and a cat who missed her. I seriously cannot say enough good things about her teaching style (I'm largely a kinesthenic learner, so I got a lot of the things she was saying right off) and about her drawings of different plot shapes. My story for last week, "Sybilla" was a story in the shape of a Greek tragedy, and it was nifty to have a picture in my head of how it's different than plot shape that's currently popular. We wrote an awesome movie synopsis together about a post-apocolyptic landscape and the dogcatchers that roam it, did some exercises on plot ideas, and at the end Bear gave us all our very own copy-marking pencils.
So much fun!
Yesterday, several of us went to Snoqualamie Falls and hiked to the bottom, then climbed down to the pool itself and rockhopped around for a while. I was a very good time, and I realized I've been missing recharging on nature. Must remember to start doing that. Today, should I get critiques done in time and my story turned in, I am going to go south to spend a few hours with my family at their Harry Potter marathon. So, you know, should get working. This week's story is ttled "The Isthmus Variation" and I sort of hate it, i was trying to do some stunt writing and I completely fell on my face. That's okay, this is where we do that. The story for next week that I will be writing this week is hard SF about a spaceship. Hard SF and me don't usually get along, but i'd like to do something fun with the genre.
Over and out. Time to write up my third out of four crits for tomorrow.
This week's instructor was Elizabeth Bear, aka
matociquala, and she was an absolutely amazing teacher. We had no idea that this was her first Claron West teaching run until she mentioned it mid-week. By the end of the week, I just wanted to put Bear in my pocket and take her home with me; alas, we all have lives waiting for us at home, and she has a dog and a cat who missed her. I seriously cannot say enough good things about her teaching style (I'm largely a kinesthenic learner, so I got a lot of the things she was saying right off) and about her drawings of different plot shapes. My story for last week, "Sybilla" was a story in the shape of a Greek tragedy, and it was nifty to have a picture in my head of how it's different than plot shape that's currently popular. We wrote an awesome movie synopsis together about a post-apocolyptic landscape and the dogcatchers that roam it, did some exercises on plot ideas, and at the end Bear gave us all our very own copy-marking pencils.So much fun!
Yesterday, several of us went to Snoqualamie Falls and hiked to the bottom, then climbed down to the pool itself and rockhopped around for a while. I was a very good time, and I realized I've been missing recharging on nature. Must remember to start doing that. Today, should I get critiques done in time and my story turned in, I am going to go south to spend a few hours with my family at their Harry Potter marathon. So, you know, should get working. This week's story is ttled "The Isthmus Variation" and I sort of hate it, i was trying to do some stunt writing and I completely fell on my face. That's okay, this is where we do that. The story for next week that I will be writing this week is hard SF about a spaceship. Hard SF and me don't usually get along, but i'd like to do something fun with the genre.
Over and out. Time to write up my third out of four crits for tomorrow.
