Congrats! I wonder if I could make it to Ontario...probably not, but we'll see. :-) I know very very little about filking but it has always sounded interesting.
I remember the moment of absolute terror during my first critique session at VP VIII--it was the five-on-one. TNH scared me by asking (very mildly and gently) if I'd ever gone through a live critique before. I asked her if Narrative Writing in college counted. It wasn't quite the same method, but hey. Then she scared me by asking how old I was. (Apparently she had some sort of thing going with James Macdonald on whether I was under 35.) I think I sat through the entire critique session like a deer in the headlights due to the initial irrational terror, even though my mind was capering and dancing in delight through the whole thing, and I wasn't able to do much more than stammer my gratitude at the end of it all. Don't get me wrong--there were many problems pointed out--but I was delighted. Because the problems were things I could fix and the work didn't seem hopeless.
*ahem* Anyway. I think, as you say, faster communications are a mixed blessing. Email rejections, for instance. Email rejections in two days. But hey, it means I can send the things out that much the sooner.
In the meantime, I suppose private email and the locked post are one's friends for venting...it would be hypocritical in the extreme for me to condemn more-or-less private venting!
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Date: 2004-11-20 04:29 am (UTC)I remember the moment of absolute terror during my first critique session at VP VIII--it was the five-on-one. TNH scared me by asking (very mildly and gently) if I'd ever gone through a live critique before. I asked her if Narrative Writing in college counted. It wasn't quite the same method, but hey. Then she scared me by asking how old I was. (Apparently she had some sort of thing going with James Macdonald on whether I was under 35.) I think I sat through the entire critique session like a deer in the headlights due to the initial irrational terror, even though my mind was capering and dancing in delight through the whole thing, and I wasn't able to do much more than stammer my gratitude at the end of it all. Don't get me wrong--there were many problems pointed out--but I was delighted. Because the problems were things I could fix and the work didn't seem hopeless.
*ahem* Anyway. I think, as you say, faster communications are a mixed blessing. Email rejections, for instance. Email rejections in two days. But hey, it means I can send the things out that much the sooner.
In the meantime, I suppose private email and the locked post are one's friends for venting...it would be hypocritical in the extreme for me to condemn more-or-less private venting!