about the Clarion West workshops

[swan_tower]

My apologies to everyone who wasn’t able to get into any of the free workshops Clarion West is offering. There was an initial delay, and then some technical difficulties that appear to mean people on certain browsers could see the registration links but others couldn’t, plus the overall demand was so high that courses filled up more or less instantaneously. I know a lot of people are disappointed.

The good news is, the CW staff are now aware of how much interest there is in this stuff, and are working to both set up future options and make sure it runs more smoothly next time. Apparently they were already intending to start offering more online options (since not everybody can travel in-person to their one-day workshops); the current situation just made them step up their timetable, is all. So if you weren’t able to register for the things that interested you, there will be more opportunities in the future — including my own workshops, because like CW, this is something I was thinking about doing anyway.

Comments

[alexseanchai]

oh excellent! all the ones you were offering sound really fascinating.

the weird thing is, my Firefox had no problem with the first lot of links, as far as I know; at some point I refreshed and suddenly there were many links that all went to "registration has ended", but I hadn't refreshed for like ten minutes before that, either. but Cat Valente's class, the link went up later and I saw on Twitter as soon as it did, and no amount of refreshing or cache-clearing or trying the page in Chrome gave me anything more than TBD until well after the seats were all gone.

[alessandriana]

One of my friends got into yours! I'm super jealous. :) I hadn't been refreshing often enough, so I missed out on the ones I really wanted, but I did manage the 'diversity' class.

[aishabintjamil]

I had hoped to get at least one of your classes, but when I couldn't find anything but the page announcing when registration would start 30 minutes after it was supposed to have started, I gave up refreshing and went back to work (being one of those people who is working from home), figuring that everything was gone by then anyway.

I do hope to see more of your worldbuilding classes on offer in the future.

[swan_tower]

I'm in discussions right now about how to make that happen!