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Clarion Tips and Tricks
Vylar posted hers here, so here are my own Clarion tips and tricks.
1) Nutrition and sleep don't stop being necessary during the workshop. More than one person has had severe long-term health consequences because of failure to take care of these two essentials. I could have gotten a lot more out of Clarion with quality sleep.
2) People get more and more tired and stressed and thus more and more ragged as the workshop goes on. There will be prickly moments. They are, however, moments that need not be long-term. Battering down defenses means you get to get the barriers to your writing out of the way, but it can come at significant short-term emotional cost.
3) Have an outlet outside the workshop -- a friend you can IM, someone you can call -- someone you can unload to, someone where you can say anything and it'll be okay.
4) When in doubt, there's always tacky stuff from Archie McPhee.
1) Nutrition and sleep don't stop being necessary during the workshop. More than one person has had severe long-term health consequences because of failure to take care of these two essentials. I could have gotten a lot more out of Clarion with quality sleep.
2) People get more and more tired and stressed and thus more and more ragged as the workshop goes on. There will be prickly moments. They are, however, moments that need not be long-term. Battering down defenses means you get to get the barriers to your writing out of the way, but it can come at significant short-term emotional cost.
3) Have an outlet outside the workshop -- a friend you can IM, someone you can call -- someone you can unload to, someone where you can say anything and it'll be okay.
4) When in doubt, there's always tacky stuff from Archie McPhee.