My best advice is to let yourself grieve for that wonderful, maddening, amazing, and frustrating experience you just had. Keep in touch with classmates and instructors the best you can. They'll be going through the same things you are.
My experience with writing after Clarion was rocky, to put it mildly. The most important thing I learned was that if I kept at it, even though I thought I was writing crap, I would get better. Because of how it's set up, Clarion focuses on really rough drafts. It's easy to forget that it's okay to write bad first drafts and be brilliant in the revision process. That was one of my many epiphanies.
I also had a really difficult life-changing experience after Clarion. Try to avoid that if you can. ;)
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Date: 2008-08-07 09:27 pm (UTC)My experience with writing after Clarion was rocky, to put it mildly. The most important thing I learned was that if I kept at it, even though I thought I was writing crap, I would get better. Because of how it's set up, Clarion focuses on really rough drafts. It's easy to forget that it's okay to write bad first drafts and be brilliant in the revision process. That was one of my many epiphanies.
I also had a really difficult life-changing experience after Clarion. Try to avoid that if you can. ;)