As I get permission from them, I’ll be grouping other fighting 13’ers’ and instructors’ responses to VP XIII here, just to show you all why you should drink the kool-aid as well.
photo courtesy of Matt Hughes
Viable Paradise
Viable Paradise Index
Official Viable Paradise Site
Student Sales Page
Bo Balder:
VP XIII
Viable Paradise, the aftermath
Brent Bowen
So What’s Your Story? #vpiii
Steve Buchheit
Long awaited VP Posts: emotional side up
Long Awaited VP Posts: What I learned on my Fall Vacation
Christopher Cornell
Viable Paradise XIII, Part 1: The Unnecessary Prologue
Viable Paradise XIII, Part 2: Setting
Viable Paradise XIII, Part 3: Characters
Viable Paradise XIII, Part 4: The Plot Thickens
Viable Paradise XIII, Part 5: Random Wisdom
Sean Craven
Return from Paradise
Chili-Dog Casserole, as served at Viable Paradise XIII
Marion Engelke
Writing after Viable Paradise
Chia Evers
So, What Was It Like?
Matt Hughes
From the Little Island
,,,and Home Again
Viable Paradise–Sunday
Viable Paradise–Monday
Viable Paradise–Tuesday
Viable Paradise–Wednesday
Viable Paradise–Thursday
Viable Paradise–Friday
Viable Paradise–Saturday
Viable Paradise–Tips for Future Students
E.F. Kelley
Back from the Vineyard
Magistera
(occupationally discreet moniker)
On Viable Paradise
Darice Moore
from My Candle Burns at Both Ends
Cath Schaff-Stump
Rain, Travel, Books
Viable
Viable!
And You May Ask Yourself…
Viable Paradise: Reflections
MacAllister Stone
VP Veggie Curry, because I promised Darice
Brandie Tarvin
The Workshop Experience
How Viable Paradise Works
Hmmm, kool-aid. Tasty.
Need to get my own thoughts in order before I post the roundup (which will hopefully happen before the weekend, although I have another 45,000 words to critique before Sunday).
Hey Cath – feel free to link off my page if you’d like. The more, the merrier.
Matt
Hey, Catherine. Got to say, I loved it when you wrote about your ambition to write a real classic. That’s the level of ambition I’m currently missing in our culture. So many people are settling for remixes, tributes, and various celebrations of toothless nostalgia. People want to be neat, or cool, or fun, or whimsical, or childlike. There’s a place for that kind of thing but you know what? Somebody needs to be great. Somebody needs to create art that will be remembered.
We need to get back to the purpose of the arts — the struggle for excellence, the desire to do work that has people shaking their heads and wondering how we did it.
Yeah, all artists exist in a continuity of influence. But someone has to do the great work that the appropriationists use as their material. I know which side of that dividing line I want to be on. And it’s great to know that someone else is standing there as well.
Hmmm… I feel a manifesto coming on.
Thanks, Sean, for your support.
I long to see your manifesto. I yearn for it.
Catherine