It would really depend on the academic schedule and whether I had any exams or papers due that week. VP is $1100 next year, plus airfare, room, and board, so ~2 grand, depending on flights (if I can get someone to drive me from Boston, it'll save me like $200, even if I pay all their gas both ways.)
The thought of Clarion horrifies me. I wouldn't survive that wringer. Six weeks of forced writing and ack. I'd have a migraine by the middle of the first week from lack of sleep plus stress. (Also, I lean more toward novels than short fiction.)
I don't know if fiction counts. I can ask. The story I'm working on right now for my VP application is set in Dresden in 1918, and it may be strongly influenced by All Quiet on the Western Front... My story coming out in December is set in Berlin in 1961, though it's alternate history.
What would I even write a new paper about? Hmm. Fantasy? Literature since 1945? (My college prof's focus.) IDEK.
OH. I could write about Das Leben der Anderen, perhaps compared with Die Birnen von Ribbeck...
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The thought of Clarion horrifies me. I wouldn't survive that wringer. Six weeks of forced writing and ack. I'd have a migraine by the middle of the first week from lack of sleep plus stress. (Also, I lean more toward novels than short fiction.)
I don't know if fiction counts. I can ask. The story I'm working on right now for my VP application is set in Dresden in 1918, and it may be strongly influenced by All Quiet on the Western Front... My story coming out in December is set in Berlin in 1961, though it's alternate history.
What would I even write a new paper about? Hmm. Fantasy? Literature since 1945? (My college prof's focus.) IDEK.
OH. I could write about Das Leben der Anderen, perhaps compared with Die Birnen von Ribbeck...