I have been tested in fire.

I headed up to Sydney today for a number of reasons (I try to combine trips, as it's a bit of a pain to go all the way there and back); one of them was to attend a session of a script-critiquing group. I was shocked at (a) how chaotic it was, with people leaping in from all over the room, (b) how widely the crits varied in their experience level (which is not a bad thing; everyone is on a path) and their cogency (which is a bad thing, because some of the crits were less well thought out than others, let me just say this about that), and (c) how resentful some people got during the process when they were disagreed with. Yowie! Clarion gets you out of all those habits right quick.

Whether or not it improves your writing, Clarion improves your coping skills, for what probably works out to be a bargain price compared to therapy! So, all you out there who are wavering as to whether to apply this year, here is just one more reason to download that form and polish that submission story.