I'm doing a second master's online. So for me I'd know I could get the work done in advance for a week or two weeks free (or at least mostly free) from thinking about it. And VP would be in the middle of the semester. Plus I'd think you could talk to the profs and be all 'hey, I have this awesome chance to go do this awesome thing and it's still academic and can we just schedule around it and I'll make it up'. Graduate profs might be more understanding of that sort of thing than undergrad, I think? Partly because they treat you as an adult and capable of being self-motivating, and partly because... you're an adult, with other things going on in your life. (Well, except for that one jerk of an instructor I had in my first semester, but he was crap at other things too. I gave him a bad review.)
As for Clarion, I saw it as space. It's space to think about writing and nothing else. It's not that you're writing every minute, but that you get to talk to cool peers and mentors and other sf/f lovers and awesomeness. I made a point to get enough sleep, because depriving yourself of enough sleep for six weeks is bad. Very bad.
Odyssey focuses on novels, but might be more expensive. And of course is also 6 weeks.
I was thinking I might do Odyssey or VP at some point. Well, try to, I'd still have to get in. :)
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Date: 2012-10-27 08:36 pm (UTC)From:As for Clarion, I saw it as space. It's space to think about writing and nothing else. It's not that you're writing every minute, but that you get to talk to cool peers and mentors and other sf/f lovers and awesomeness. I made a point to get enough sleep, because depriving yourself of enough sleep for six weeks is bad. Very bad.
Odyssey focuses on novels, but might be more expensive. And of course is also 6 weeks.
I was thinking I might do Odyssey or VP at some point. Well, try to, I'd still have to get in. :)