* Places to go after RAWR to continue writing career, because there's a lot
* What worked/didn't RAWR, so we can figure out what's next
* Staying in touch as a group after going through this together:
* helps to have this community of people who know about each other
* We have familiarity with what we're all trying to do (rather than starting fresh with a new critique group, where people may have suggestions for a story you're not actually trying to write, e.g: literary snobs who might make you justify your genre)
* cohort with similar starting point and familiarity with discourses within the genre, rather than trying to catch them up to the tropes
* Continuing to read:
* Provide recommendations to each other because now we have a good idea of what each other like
* Also, good to get reading material by volunteering as a slush reader for awards/magazines (also good way to broaden horizons w/ stuff you might *not* read), read Year's Best <GENRE>, etc. Pick up by osmosis
* What would your *response* to those be?
* Be a bone-stealer - steal a skeleton to enter into a story of your own (Disney, noir, fairy tales, etc)
* Focus on metagenres, e.g: queer fiction
* Email lists, e.g: book smugglers' X Marks the Spot, Fireside, Fiyah
* Other workshops:
* apply multiple times, since you'll probably be paired up with similar sensibilities
* Mention that you know previous members (Kyell and Dayna)
* List this workshop as a reference
* Clarion:
* six weeks, RAWR kind of condensed version of first week + the rest
* Genre focus (sff)
* 20 attendees
* See which authors are going to teach:
* The Anchor Team (last two instructors)
* a consideration, yes, but what you take away from it is your cohort
* More just tells you what to apply with
* probably rolling classes over another year
* Clarion West in Seattle
* Clarion in San Diego
* Get access to archive of first drafts
* "Fun Trauma"/"MFA in a Bottle":
* shorthand for understanding that you're serious, they approach you in a different frame of mind
* some of the takeaways are the same, but Clarion can be less painful
* The big takeaway is connections
* Dayna prefers experience, right choice for some
* Still, not necessary
* CSSF Kij's workshop at U Kansas:
* Focused on novel writing:
* also novel *structuring*
* Work on kitbashing - what makes it tick?
* SFF
* Also Repeat Offenders:
* like ReRAWR
* Invited back, kind of retreat
* Smaller: 6-8 attendees
* Kij has both traditional and furry cred
* Barb does everything through self publishing
* Tries to pair folks up (paired Kyell and Watts) so no one is stranded/left with folks not knowing what they're going for
* wake up and only obligation is writing and writing-adjacent stuff
* Benefit:
* Ended up being more accessible, esp when travel is difficult
* nice to still be able to get people together
* sometimes folks can't make it for logistical reasons or disabilities and this allows sidestepping that
* Workshops for short/anthology horror:
* Clarion considers horror to be genre
* [Another Kansas workshop w/ Chris McKitterick](https://christopher-mckitterick.com/Workshop-stuff/SFworkshop.htm), CSSF Short Story workshop, might be good for horror
* Con panels specific to horror (Foolscap, NorWesCon, Wiscon, WriteFest)
