Comments on: Viable Paradise 2009 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/01/12/viable-paradise-2009/ DEVISING A SYSTEM FOR REMEMBERING EVERYTHING Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:05:46 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: MrChrstn http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/01/12/viable-paradise-2009/#comment-125740 MrChrstn Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:38:04 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=5953#comment-125740 Just want to add to all the other comments: For a writer, it's a life-changing experience. The sheer amount of info, drive and writer chutzpa you'll walk away with is staggering. Instruction is *excellent* and will laser-focus your skills in a major way on pieces you don't even know you're missing yet. It's also a blast. Just discovering that there are that many other people who share your goals is empowering all on it's own. The island is very pretty, but don't plan to see too much of it, you'll be busy. As fellow VPer Lisa said, they could have had it at a hotel in Ohio near a taco bell, and it'd still be an awesome vacation. Christian VP XII Just want to add to all the other comments:

For a writer, it’s a life-changing experience. The sheer amount of info, drive and writer chutzpa you’ll walk away with is staggering. Instruction is *excellent* and will laser-focus your skills in a major way on pieces you don’t even know you’re missing yet.

It’s also a blast. Just discovering that there are that many other people who share your goals is empowering all on it’s own. The island is very pretty, but don’t plan to see too much of it, you’ll be busy.

As fellow VPer Lisa said, they could have had it at a hotel in Ohio near a taco bell, and it’d still be an awesome vacation.

Christian VP XII

]]> By: The Pathetic Earthling http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/01/12/viable-paradise-2009/#comment-125692 The Pathetic Earthling Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:32:27 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=5953#comment-125692 Hmmmm.... since this big law firm thing isn't working out, time to dust off a couple of story ideas and put in. Hmmmm…. since this big law firm thing isn’t working out, time to dust off a couple of story ideas and put in.

]]> By: CKL http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/01/12/viable-paradise-2009/#comment-125557 CKL Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:24:02 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=5953#comment-125557 Yet another VPXII alum reporting in... I'll second Marko's sentiment that if you have any inkling of interest in the workshop, you should get off your butt and APPLY. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain. For the record, I submitted my application on the last possible day in 2008 and got accepted. Which is not a great example for you to follow, but don't be discouraged if it's Flag Day and you're still working on your story. Just, um, pick up the pace a little. Please note, however, that VP is a B.Y.O.B.* affair. Go Lucky Thirteen! * Bring Your Own Bacon Yet another VPXII alum reporting in…

I’ll second Marko’s sentiment that if you have any inkling of interest in the workshop, you should get off your butt and APPLY. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

For the record, I submitted my application on the last possible day in 2008 and got accepted. Which is not a great example for you to follow, but don’t be discouraged if it’s Flag Day and you’re still working on your story. Just, um, pick up the pace a little.

Please note, however, that VP is a B.Y.O.B.* affair.

Go Lucky Thirteen!

* Bring Your Own Bacon

]]> By: Jeff Soesbe (yeff) http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/01/12/viable-paradise-2009/#comment-125530 Jeff Soesbe (yeff) Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:47:22 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=5953#comment-125530 Matt - you'll never know unless you submit. So submit! Xopher - plenty of time, man. Do it! Catherine - go for it! Best of luck! Though I missed out on ScLazi (Bear knows all), I know the other five are awesome and Scalzi is surely awesome by association. VPXI is a writerly-life-changing experience. It's that simple. - yeff (VPXI) Matt – you’ll never know unless you submit. So submit!

Xopher – plenty of time, man. Do it!

Catherine – go for it! Best of luck!

Though I missed out on ScLazi (Bear knows all), I know the other five are awesome and Scalzi is surely awesome by association. VPXI is a writerly-life-changing experience. It’s that simple.

- yeff (VPXI)

]]> By: Tim Keating http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/01/12/viable-paradise-2009/#comment-125517 Tim Keating Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:22:22 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=5953#comment-125517 Another VP XII alumnus, just chiming in to say "Just do it!" along with Katrina, Marko and Chang. (Hi, Katrina, Marko & Chang!) TK Another VP XII alumnus, just chiming in to say “Just do it!” along with Katrina, Marko and Chang. (Hi, Katrina, Marko & Chang!)

TK

]]> By: Catherine Schaff-Stump http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/01/12/viable-paradise-2009/#comment-125500 Catherine Schaff-Stump Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:35:20 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=5953#comment-125500 Working hard on my ap right now, trying to get it out by the end of the month. It's cool that all the teachers are coming back. I always teach better the second time around. And it was a good line up the first time. Catherine Working hard on my ap right now, trying to get it out by the end of the month.

It’s cool that all the teachers are coming back. I always teach better the second time around. And it was a good line up the first time.

Catherine

]]> By: RyanMcN http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/01/12/viable-paradise-2009/#comment-125497 RyanMcN Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:36:26 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=5953#comment-125497 ebear: Sclazi? Hmm, another misspelling of Scalzi... OH NOES! I smell INTERNET MEME!! ebear:
Sclazi? Hmm, another misspelling of Scalzi…

OH NOES! I smell INTERNET MEME!!

]]> By: Xopher http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/01/12/viable-paradise-2009/#comment-125493 Xopher Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:56:52 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=5953#comment-125493 I fear I've once again failed to get my anatomy in gear to do this. Sniff. Maybe next time. (I have to replace some half-written stories with completed ones, my desktop computer with a lap top, and my hip with a titanium one. That last is actually the first thing I need to do this year, and then I'll worry about the rest.) I fear I’ve once again failed to get my anatomy in gear to do this. Sniff. Maybe next time.

(I have to replace some half-written stories with completed ones, my desktop computer with a lap top, and my hip with a titanium one. That last is actually the first thing I need to do this year, and then I’ll worry about the rest.)

]]> By: Chang in Chang in Chang in Chang http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/01/12/viable-paradise-2009/#comment-125487 Chang in Chang in Chang in Chang Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:57:12 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=5953#comment-125487 VPXII Was the bomb. Learned so much there form everyone. I went because Scalzicce and BEar were going to be there but I got so much from EVERY one of the instructors and the other participants. Apply. Love it. You will not regret it. VPXII Was the bomb. Learned so much there form everyone. I went because Scalzicce and BEar were going to be there but I got so much from EVERY one of the instructors and the other participants.

Apply. Love it. You will not regret it.

]]> By: Matt http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/01/12/viable-paradise-2009/#comment-125480 Matt Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:48:45 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=5953#comment-125480 The temptation, oh, the temptation. I'll have to see if my current WiP is polished enough to submit. The temptation, oh, the temptation. I’ll have to see if my current WiP is polished enough to submit.

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