The Lounge

I've been enjoying Codex as a way to keep in touch with people from various workshops. I used to use livejournal for that, but now that my friends list is so big, I've found that it's easier to keep track of new people and their adventures on Codex. For one thing, everyone uses their own names (or their author names) rather than pseudonyms -- I used to be a big pseudonym fan, but while I have the mental space to keep 100 people and their pseudonyms straight in my head, I can't do that with 300 people, many of whom I've never met.  Read more »

Our website has been up for almost two years at this point, and we're going to review, rethink, and revise it.  Including these forums.

 What needs to be added?  What needs to be changed?  What would you like to find here?  What would you loathe?

 Please let me know, so we can do something about it.

WARNING

***Includes a spoiler for the recent episode***

A friend who watched the show pointed out that I needed to read the web "obituary" for the character on the show who just killed himself.

http://www.fox.com/kutner/

The second to last paragraph includes: "He enjoyed science fiction and was a frequent participant in the Clarion Science Fiction Workshops."  Read more »

Leslie and I want to put together a "how to survive the real world after the workshop" handout. We'd love your input about things that worked for you (and things that didn't work).

How do you write when you have twenty-odd critiquing voices in your head?

What have you done since the workshop that worked for you as a writer and what didn't work?

What do you wish you had done or hadn't done?

What do you wish someone had told you?

Any other post-CW advice?

Thanks!

*peeks at message board yet again*

*sighs*

*stops lurking*

Hello, everyone. I haven't seen a thread for this years' applicants yet, so I thought I might start one. Do feel free to rant at me if I have begun a new thread in error. So, um, hi, I'm Rheniel, and I just submitted my application.  Read more »

Clarion West – images from twenty-five years of workshops

Hi All;  Read more »

Any good tips for persevering through difficult parts of the story?

What are your writing goals for 2008?

Any good story brainstorming tips?  What do you do in order to make a blank page or screen less scary?  How do you get out of that moment where you just can't think of anything?  Talk to someone, let it rest, take a bath, make lists...?

What makes a good beginning for a story?  What kinds of things draw you into the story and make you want to keep reading?  What things put you off, or make you reluctant to continue?