You know where I had a really excellent time? The Clarion Writer's Workshop

How you sometimes feel after a Clarion workshop

Clarion and Clarion West (for those not in the know) are six-week summer workshops for science fiction and fantasy writers. You go, you live in a dorm with twenty other writers, you get instructed by a different professor each week, and every week you write a story and have your story critiqued.

It's a pret…