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%title RAWR day 5

Lecture --- What's next?

  • 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 , 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
    • Taos:
      • One particular guy runs it
      • Good reputation
    • Viable Paradise:
      • A few instructors (may have changed?)
      • Opens apps Jan 1
    • Odyssey
    • WriteFest:
      • multiple workshop programs (poetry, memoirs, lit fic, etc)
      • Not residential, but can roll into a conference right after with lots of good info
      • Scary Stories for Young Foxes
    • Highlights Foundation does a middle grade workshop
    • Readercon
    • Orycon
    • Emerald City Comic Con (though very artist focused)
    • Make your own workshop...??? :thinking emoji:
  • Alumni network:
    • folks from other classes
    • Can settle into a group like that
    • Maybe get together for a long weekend
  • Online vs Residential:
    • Missing:
      • cohabitation
      • coffee runs
      • accidental opportunities to talk about writing
      • feels like a mini-convention
      • 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, CSSF Short Story workshop, might be good for horror
    • Con panels specific to horror (Foolscap, NorWesCon, Wiscon, WriteFest)
    • Folks to ask: Voice, Howl
  • Voodonauts
  • Queer-focused workshops:
  • Hopepunk, solarpunk, good stuff
  • Rosarium