Clarion Deadline Approaching
Feb. 7th, 2011 08:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julieandrewsIt's okay if you're a procrastinator, really, but do keep in mind that February is a short month.
The deadline for Clarion applications for 2011 is March 1st. Does that include March 1st? I don't know. That's one problem with us procrastinators. We need specific deadlines! :)
Clarion page go look go apply and read all about it and did I mention apply and like yea
If you don't apply then you won't have the following instructors: Nina Kiriki Hoffman, John Scalzi (of teh interweb fame and like.. SFWA president), Elizabeth Bear, David Anthony Durham, John Kessel, and Kij Johnson.
If you don't apply then you can't spend six weeks writing (wait, before you say you can, you didn't let me finish!) right next to the ocean and a library with dining hall food and singing trees and COMICCON and 17-19 fellow writers and stuff!
If you don't apply then you won't experience the awesome Clarion awesomeness.
Clarion taught me to be articulate.
Two common things I hear:
* I'd love to do Clarion sometime but I don't have the money.
* I always wanted to do Clarion but I can't take 6 weeks off work/away from family.
So I'd just like to point out that Clarion has scholarships. That big scary figure probably won't stay as big and as scary. And friends and family and internet acquaintances may very well help you out if you ask and explain how important it is to you.
As for the six weeks, obviously you're the only one who can judge your living and working situation, but I do encourage you to think about it. Would your family understand if you took 6 weeks to go on Biggest Loser or Survivor or The Amazing Race? Then convince them this is just as important and just as awesome. And can you at least ask your boss if there's a possibility you can take 6 weeks? Feel them out about the idea? After all, many employers are used to people taking time off for m/paternity leave or FMLA. (US bias here.) So there should be policies and methods in place to do without you for those weeks yet welcome you back. Just don't think it could never happen unless you're really sure about it.
That said, Clarion attendees do tend to be at a transition phase in their life. So if you're thinking of maybe changing careers sometime, maybe try to plan it to land in summer 2011 or 2012. If you're planning on getting married, put it off until fall. You get the idea.
And in any case, applying doesn't commit you to anything but 1) The application fee and 2) The risk of rejection. So go for it and worry about the details later!
The deadline for Clarion applications for 2011 is March 1st. Does that include March 1st? I don't know. That's one problem with us procrastinators. We need specific deadlines! :)
Clarion page go look go apply and read all about it and did I mention apply and like yea
If you don't apply then you won't have the following instructors: Nina Kiriki Hoffman, John Scalzi (of teh interweb fame and like.. SFWA president), Elizabeth Bear, David Anthony Durham, John Kessel, and Kij Johnson.
If you don't apply then you can't spend six weeks writing (wait, before you say you can, you didn't let me finish!) right next to the ocean and a library with dining hall food and singing trees and COMICCON and 17-19 fellow writers and stuff!
If you don't apply then you won't experience the awesome Clarion awesomeness.
Clarion taught me to be articulate.
Two common things I hear:
* I'd love to do Clarion sometime but I don't have the money.
* I always wanted to do Clarion but I can't take 6 weeks off work/away from family.
So I'd just like to point out that Clarion has scholarships. That big scary figure probably won't stay as big and as scary. And friends and family and internet acquaintances may very well help you out if you ask and explain how important it is to you.
As for the six weeks, obviously you're the only one who can judge your living and working situation, but I do encourage you to think about it. Would your family understand if you took 6 weeks to go on Biggest Loser or Survivor or The Amazing Race? Then convince them this is just as important and just as awesome. And can you at least ask your boss if there's a possibility you can take 6 weeks? Feel them out about the idea? After all, many employers are used to people taking time off for m/paternity leave or FMLA. (US bias here.) So there should be policies and methods in place to do without you for those weeks yet welcome you back. Just don't think it could never happen unless you're really sure about it.
That said, Clarion attendees do tend to be at a transition phase in their life. So if you're thinking of maybe changing careers sometime, maybe try to plan it to land in summer 2011 or 2012. If you're planning on getting married, put it off until fall. You get the idea.
And in any case, applying doesn't commit you to anything but 1) The application fee and 2) The risk of rejection. So go for it and worry about the details later!