Comments on: Five months later, I’m still thinking of Clarion West

By: Rochita Loenen-Ruiz

Rochita Loenen-Ruiz — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:11:16 +0000

Hi Alley. We did indeed write short stories during the six weeks we were there, but I don’t think it should be a problem if your natural length is the novel. I had a good number of classmates who also wrote best at novel length. I think the greatest thing one takes away from Clarion is finding a group of peers on the same wavelength as you are. Also, the lecturers always have something fabulous and inspiring to say. It’s well worth going.

S.J., sorry for the late response and thanks for reading. It seems I’m still in a shady area between being a real writer and a hobby writer because I don’t have a book either. I’ve also been told this: “You should write the story of my life. It’s bound to be a bestseller.”

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By: alley

alley — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:54:35 +0000

I heard you write a bunch of short stories at Clarion. I’m not a short story writer. I do my best at novels, would this be a problem at Clarion?

By: S.J. Chambers

S.J. Chambers — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:52:18 +0000

“I don’t know whether it’s got something to do with Harry Potter or Twilight, but somehow people seem to expect that if you are a writer of science fiction and fantasy it means you’ve got some blockbuster book up your sleeve that will be turned into a movie any day now.”

Or that you have to have a book. I know a lot of people who think my writing is just a hobby because it hasn’t yielded a novel, or equivalent, for them to hold in their hands. If they can’t see outside of the internet, it doesn’t really exist to them. It doesn’t bother me, but I have wondered if other writers get similar flack. Thanks for this.