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Front Row (bottom)<\/strong><\/td>\nJ.M. Plumbley, Julian K. Jarboe, Molly Etta, Valerie San Filippo, Sabrina N. Balmick<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Middle Row<\/strong><\/td>\nAnn Latham Cudworth, Elaine McIonyn, Janea Schimmel, Odyssey Director Jeanne Cavelos, A. Katherine Black<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Back Row (top)<\/strong><\/td>\nKeith Proctor, Rachel Morris, P.R. Doyle, N.M. Billon, Matt Maloney, Kaja Holzheimer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nPhoto taken by Resident Supervisor Zoe Zygmunt<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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<\/a>Odyssey has been a life-changing experience—a true journey into becoming the writer I’ve always wanted to be. I have struggled physically, mentally, and emotionally against escalating obstacles the whole time not sure if I’d succeed, but finally emerging as a changed person and a better writer. Jeanne is the best writing instructor I’ve ever had. Her method of deconstructing difficult concepts helps make them clear. Her comments on my writing have been insightful, and the key to some of the breakthroughs I’ve had at Odyssey.<\/p>\n

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Jeanne is a wonderful teacher. The six weeks I’ve spent at Odyssey made me a better writer, and the memories will stay with me a long time.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>Odyssey has completely transformed my writing life in the span of only six weeks. Not only has Jeanne given me an amazing writer’s toolbox, she’s unpacked every tool and explained its use in wonderful detail. I am so excited for my writing future. A million thanks to Odyssey Writers’ Workshop!<\/p>\n

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I am impressed by the wealth of ideas presented at Odyssey as well as the status this workshop has in the fantastic fiction world.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>Odyssey was revelatory. Jeanne created the ideal environment to improve my craft. In six weeks, I’ve gained a better understanding of my weak spots as a writer and how to address them than I had in the three years prior. I’d recommend it to any speculative fiction writer hoping to hone their craft.<\/p>\n

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Odyssey is indeed an odyssey—it can be exhausting and it takes your all, but it is so satisfying! I’m so grateful I got to have this experience and expect I’ll be referring back to my Odyssey notebook constantly as I continue to improve as a writer.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>I so enjoyed my time at Odyssey. I’ve learned far more than I thought possible and have been given the tools to continue learning and experimenting into the future.
\nJeanne, as a writer and editor, has incredible insights into the craft of writing—and she is willing and able to critique pretty much anything. She also has a wonderful ability to encourage students. She helped me find my writing strengths and then helped me work out how to use them to improve my weaknesses.<\/p>\n

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Learning to improve weak areas of my writing on an element-by-element level allowed me to try approaches I either didn’t know about or was afraid to attempt.
\nGiving critiques helped me gain an editor’s eye, and receiving them granted me insight into the ideas I cared to turn into stories and why.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>It was a revelation. I will carry the valuable knowledge gained here for the rest of my life.<\/p>\n

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I crossed the Atlantic to come to Odyssey—and I’m glad I did. I enjoyed every minute of it, even the moments of extreme exhaustion, because I knew this was what it was going to take to level-up in my writing abilities. Odyssey was the perfect environment for making the improvements I wanted to make, thanks in large part to Jeanne’s excellent lectures. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend it to anyone who is willing to put in the effort to make the magic happen.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>Odyssey is the best writing experience of my life. You may think you know everything about writing, but everyone can always improve. Go!<\/p>\n

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<\/a>Odyssey is more than a workshop. It’s a six-week hero’s journey (also a boot camp, a monastic community—choose your metaphor). Writers hone their craft through trials, deaths, rebirths (often multiple times a week). It’s a harrowing voyage. Luckily they have a brilliant guide: wise woman \/ drill instructor \/ mother superior Jeanne Cavelos.<\/p>\n

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Before Odyssey, writing felt nebulous and mysterious. Both my strengths and my weaknesses were abstract, incalculable, and I couldn’t get a grip on what I needed to improve. Odyssey made everything tangible. Now I’m in control of my strengths as a writer, and I know what I have to do to grow. The most valuable part of the Odyssey experience is the realization that any writer can meet their full potential, so long as they’re willing to put in the work and check their ego at the door.
\nJeanne is like a saint. Like a saint with a chainsaw.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>Odyssey changed how I looked at writing by giving me a vocabulary for things I was aware of but could not articulate and by teaching me concepts I had no clear idea existed. These things will inform my writing from here on out, likely in ways that will constantly surprise.<\/p>\n

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I had built up Odyssey in my head for two years before I was able to attend. When I got accepted, I started a countdown until the first day of class, and thought about how great it was going to be–about how much I would learn and how it would be a turning point in my life and all of the other things you read about in those student quotes–every day, almost every hour. My friends looked at my askance, worried that I was in for a letdown. I worried I was in for a letdown. How could I not be, with my expectations built so dangerously high?
\nHave you guessed where this is going yet? If you’ve read the other quotes, I bet you have.<\/p>\n

Odyssey blew my expectations OUT OF THE FRAKKING WATER. Jeanne is full of even more knowledge than people say. She is also kinder about doling out that knowledge than I would have imagined. I learned in days what would have otherwise taken me years, and all the other things I had been promised and was worried couldn’t be possible.
\nWe came here to learn about how to paint worlds with words, but sometimes, words are not enough to express what something is really like. Build your expectations as high as you want. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised.<\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1551290670831{margin-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Memorable Quotes from the Class of 2018″ font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:30|text_align:center” google_fonts=”font_family:Arimo%3Aregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” css=”.vc_custom_1609195232435{margin-top: 10px !important;}”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row gap=”10″ equal_height=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1551239496334{padding-top: 10px !important;padding-right: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;padding-left: 10px !important;background-color: #71cff7 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1551239407282{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_column_text]\u201cWhy is there foil on the grill?\u201d
\n—Everyone<\/p>\n

\u201cI googled abscesses and afterward regretted it.\u201d
\n—Elaine<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the fun part of giving yourself brain damage.\u201d
\n—Matt<\/p>\n

\u201cI drew a smiley face in the margin; yea, dead Dave.\u201d
\n—Jessica<\/p>\n

\u201cI want the cake to have more of a character arc.\u201d
\n—Janea<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat about edible books? If you don\u2019t like it at least you can get a decent meal out of it.\u201d
\n—Matt<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to see some competency porn.\u201d
\n—Nic<\/p>\n

Janea: \u201cWhy is he wearing black in a hot desert?\u201d
\nValerie: \u201cBecause he\u2019s mysterious.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to see the cake defend itself.\u201d
\n—Nic<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes your characters just want to do it.\u201d
\n—Zoe<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very mysterious, like math.\u201d
\n—Julian<\/p>\n

Jeanne: \u201cWhat price must be paid for the magic?\u201d
\nValerie: \u201cAt least $100.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWho hasn\u2019t drunk alcohol out of cow entrails?\u201d
\n—Keith<\/p>\n

\u201cI would be vaguely concerned, and I know nothing about anything.\u201d
\n—Valerie<\/p>\n

\u201cI want you to up the dental care angle.\u201d
\n—Kaja<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd now I\u2019d like to talk about the economics of man flesh.\u201d
\n—Jessica<\/p>\n

“Big haunches of man-flesh.”
\n—Matt<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like there\u2019s an impending series of sex scenes coming.\u201d
\n—Valerie<\/p>\n

Matt: \u201cI don\u2019t like 2nd person telling me how to feel.\u201d
\nKeith: \u201cYou don\u2019t mean that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI like how the arm found meaningful work at the end of the story\u201d
\n—Kaja<\/p>\n

\u201cI hate humanity, let’s become a tree.\u201d
\n—Jessica<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Odyssey\u00a0was the Buffy of its time.\u201d
\n—Julian<\/p>\n

\u201cI liked the poop detail.\u201d
\n—Valerie<\/p>\n

\u201cI like readers that aren\u2019t that well-read.\u201d
\n—Matt<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re right on track for your latest writing crisis.\u201d
\n—Zoe<\/p>\n

\u201cKeith is my rock.\u201d
\n—Nic<\/p>\n

“Pooping down the pillar.”
\n—Jessica<\/p>\n

\u201cBe clear about what happened, but not necessarily about what it means.\u201d
\n—Nisi Shawl<\/p>\n

\u201cDead people happen.\u201d
\n—Nisi Shawl<\/p>\n

\u201cI do research until I find a person in a place with a problem.\u201d
\n—E. C. Ambrose<\/p>\n

\u201cThe character seems to breathe a lot.\u201d
\n—Keith<\/p>\n

\u201cThe prose is as impenetrable as the wall.\u201d
\n—Valerie<\/p>\n

\u201cI could swim in a vat of her language forever.\u201d
\n—Valerie<\/p>\n

\u201cI loved the exploding eyeball trees.\u201d
\n—Jessica<\/p>\n

\u201cTitle it \u2018The Great Rex-cue.\u2019\u201d
\n—Nic<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the weirdest retelling of Icarus I have ever seen.\u201d
\n—Julian<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody is dying, I have no sympathy.\u201d
\n—Keith<\/p>\n

\u201cI am a big fan of ritual heart eating.\u201d
\n—Rachel<\/p>\n

\u201cI like how she\u2019s crazy. She\u2019s my kind of girl.\u201d
\n—Matt<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to know what she looked like. Perhaps she could glance in a mirror, or see her reflection in his blue eyes.\u201d
\n—Molly<\/p>\n

\u201cDitto on kicking him in the nuts.\u201d
\n—Valerie<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s like a medieval Kathy Bates the way she stalks him.\u201d
\n—Julian<\/p>\n

\u201cMy brand is chaos!\u201d
\n—Valerie<\/p>\n

\u201cI told you we should start a cult.\u201d
\n—Valerie<\/p>\n

\u201cIs she able to write the letter while in house form?\u201d
\n—Molly<\/p>\n

Jeanne: \u201cIs the magic rational, irrational or mysterious?\u201d
\nKaja: \u201cIt\u2019s accounting magic. Of course it\u2019s rational!\u201d<\/p>\n

Jeanne: \u201cSo we have to get the time machine up to a certain speed, rather than we get inside the refrigerator and…\u201d
\nKaja: \u201cWait for it to defrost.\u201d
\nKeith: \u201cOr get it up to 88 miles an hour.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYour sentences took off on a glorious runaway blaze.\u201d
\n—Julian<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like he\u2019s about to sell me some I-can\u2019t-believe-it\u2019s-not-butter.\u201d\u00a0—Julian<\/p>\n

Jeanne: \u201cI feel like you were in some other dimension where I couldn\u2019t quite see you.\u201d
\nKaja: \u201cThat would explain a lot of yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jeanne: \u201cSo if the person who\u2019s a werewolf no longer wants to…\u201d
\nKaja: \u201cFluff up?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI need some more Moms. Mean Moms.\u201d
\n—Amy<\/p>\n

\u201cAh! Tension is rising. I hope the person… does the… thing.\u201d
\n—Molly<\/p>\n

\u201cI could not unsee the cute red muppet shambling between the headstones.\u201d
\n—Elaine<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen will our characters learn\u00a0not\u00a0to sign Faerie contracts?\u201d
\n—Rachel<\/p>\n

Jeanne: \u201cDid anyone choose a story because of the plot?\u201d
\nSilence.
\nKaja: \u201cDoes that show, Jeanne?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI typically write stories where people are routinely destroyed.\u201d
\n—Keith<\/p>\n

\u201cThat little issue of killing your sidekick.\u201d
\n—Amy<\/p>\n

\u201cGod, I can\u2019t swing this sword like I used to due to the osteoporosis.\u201d—Elaine<\/p>\n

\u201cI could really relate to her urgent need for sleep.\u201d
\n—Molly<\/p>\n

\u201cI appreciated the sprinkling of elephants throughout.\u201d
\n—Molly<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause robots punching each other is cool.\u201d
\n—Patrick<\/p>\n

\u201cI wondered about the methodology for skinning somebody.\u201d
\n—Ann<\/p>\n

Nic to Keith: \u201cIt\u2019s my turn now.\u201d
\nKeith to Nic: \u201cI\u2019ll cede you ten seconds tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elaine (Irish) to Kaja (Australian), before they were each made to eat a S\u2019more: \u201cSo, are you ready to be photographed consuming unruly foodstuffs?\u201d
\nKaja: \u201cI think we\u2019re the climax to \u2018The Smoring of The Aliens.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cExcellent use of flip flops.\u201d
\n—Molly<\/p>\n

\u201cIt came across as, \u2018As you should be able to work out for yourself, Bob.\u2019\u201d
\n—Elaine<\/p>\n

\u201cThis made blood and guts pretty!\u201d
\n—Jessica<\/p>\n

\u201cI loved all the silver and blood red goodness.\u201d
\n—Molly[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1551239417694{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_column_text]\u201cI didn\u2019t know why they didn\u2019t just… go through the front door.\u201d
\n—Patrick<\/p>\n

\u201cI was a fan of the killer plants.\u201d
\n—Keith<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a lot of space-shuttling to the story.\u201d
\n—Nic<\/p>\n

\u201cI love that she stabs him in the brain through the eye.\u201d
\n—Julian<\/p>\n

\u201cThe more creepy her obsession got, the more I rooted for her.\u201d
\n—Amy<\/p>\n

\u201cI loved the toting around in a wheelbarrow. Is she just circling?\u201d
\n—Molly<\/p>\n

\u201cI very much hope homunculi feature prominently elsewhere in the novel.\u201d
\n—Molly<\/p>\n

\u201cI really needed to go to the bathroom while reading it, but couldn\u2019t.\u201d
\n—Elaine<\/p>\n

“Before I can commit surgery, I need to have a body.\u201d
\n—Rachel<\/p>\n

“If he had to put the spiked mask on his face, that would make me happy.\u201d
\n—Jeanne<\/p>\n

“I think your story should be called Fist of Vengeance.\u201d
\n—Matt<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no fool-less person here.\u201d
\n—Rachel<\/p>\n

\u201cJust put a potato in your book.\u201d
\n—Jeanne<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a very memorable eye bulge.\u201d
\n—Jeanne<\/p>\n

\u201cTitle of the novel to vicariously enjoy second-hand smoke will be \u2018Sniff the Wind.\u2019 It will have a scratch and sniff cover.\u201d
\n—Jeanne<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re the writer, get your character out of trouble or kill them.\u201d
\n—Jeanne<\/p>\n

\u201cWe like that, so we can kill more children.\u201d
\n—Jeanne<\/p>\n

\u201cI have not thought a lot about the internal conflict of the Terminator.\u201d
\n—Jeanne<\/p>\n

\u201cI want some kind of farting and gambling.\u201d
\n—Jeanne<\/p>\n

\u201cYou made me very uneasy about cows.\u201d
\n—Jeanne<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s either brilliant or very very bad.\u201d
\n—Jeanne<\/p>\n

“He was cute, but you know, we can’t all be Elijah Wood.\u201d
\n—Jeanne<\/p>\n

“You’ve opened up a can of birds here.\u201d
\n—Jeanne<\/p>\n

“Somewhere in between brilliant and awful is where you are.\u201d
\n—Jeanne<\/p>\n

“Or, they have sex. And afterward, a piece of toast comes out of her vagina, but it’s soggy, and not done… because, it takes two to make a piece of toast.\u201d
\n—Jeanne<\/p>\n

“I can imagine the cake growing snakelike and going right down his throat, growing through his digestive tract and coming out the other end, whipping him through the air, and perhaps making him into an ornament on top of the cake.\u201d
\n—Jeanne<\/p>\n

\u201cHe could still eat her, even though she\u2019s dead.\u201d
\n—Jeanne<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a waste of a meal for her to use her heart for some other purpose.\u201d
\n—Jeanne<\/p>\n

\u201cHere\u2019s a writing rule I never told you: if you\u2019re going to have a cat with an eye patch in the story, the eye patch needs to come off before the end and little rods need to shoot out of its eyeball or something.\u201d
\n—Jeanne<\/p>\n

\u201cThe werewolf just stops and breathes on her. \u201c—Jeanne<\/p>\n

“Gotta have the feels.\u201d
\n—Matt<\/p>\n

\u201cThe feels are kind of missing.\u201d
\n—Jeanne<\/p>\n

“I wasn’t sure that I found Lucas’s desperate attachment to the screwdriver entirely credible.\u201d
\n—Molly<\/p>\n

\u201cSo maybe all the screwdrivers in the world are useless against this monster. Something to think about.\u201d
\n—Jeanne<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I have some comments about the plot.\u201d
\n—Jeanne<\/p>\n

“I feel forty years older but in a good way.” —Jessica<\/p>\n

“I want to feel the serenity of the bookshelves.\u201d
\n—Julian<\/p>\n

“I burst out laughing when he ate the tiny woman.\u201d
\n—Theodora Goss<\/p>\n

“I had trouble with the peas.\u201d
\n—Ann<\/p>\n

“I found his listlessness oddly engrossing.\u201d
\n—Molly<\/p>\n

“Maybe it could become a biting satire.\u201d
\n—Elaine<\/p>\n

Keith admires Jeanne’s Hello Kitty lunchbox.
\nJeanne: “I should have a gun in here.\u201d
\nKeith: “Then it would be Goodbye Kitty.\u201d<\/p>\n

“You disturbed me greatly.\u201d
\n—Janea<\/p>\n

“I nearly flipped the desk over.\u201d
\n—Jessica<\/p>\n

“The dark side of the cake coma.\u201d
\n—Elaine<\/p>\n

“A cake god.\u201d
\n—Sabrina<\/p>\n

“Wow, they really don’t like this cake.\u201d
\n—Nic<\/p>\n

“He saw the world through the lens of cakes.\u201d
\n—Patrick<\/p>\n

“Constant mirror moment.\u201d
\n—Valerie<\/p>\n

“Seats upholstered with kitten skins.\u201d
\n—Elaine<\/p>\n

“I want a little cruelty. I want to see a Widget cooked every once in a while.\u201d
\n—Keith<\/p>\n

“A dog’s dinner of emotions.\u201d
\n—Keith<\/p>\n

“Toilet sprites.\u201d
\n—Jeanne<\/p>\n

“I think you deserve some sort of award for all the raising and lowering of eyebrows.\u201d
\n—Molly<\/p>\n

Keith: “But maybe I’m just fussy and old . . .\u201d
\nNic: “Yes.”
\nBeat.
\nNic: “I made fun of Keith but I’m fussier and older than he is.\u201d<\/p>\n

“I’m super into poisoning.\u201d
\n—Rachel<\/p>\n

“Obviously I sympathize with her; she’s being entombed in stone.\u201d
\n—Janea<\/p>\n

Jeanne: “Panic!\u201d
\nValerie: “You’re already the voice in my head.\u201d
\nJeanne: “Now I’m in stereo.\u201d<\/p>\n

“I’m assuming this hypothetical person didn’t write such a good story.\u201d
\n—Elaine<\/p>\n

“Kudzu of the mind.\u201d
\n—Ann<\/p>\n

“It was a real page turner—after page 5.\u201d
\n—Elaine<\/p>\n

“I’m a little torn on the mini-chainsaw.\u201d
\n—Keith<\/p>\n

“Flaw him up.\u201d
\n—Zoe<\/p>\n

“If you have a vampire, you can’t have a mirror moment.\u201d
\n—Ann<\/p>\n

“Just take the toaster with you.\u201d
\n—Kaja<\/p>\n

“I’m glad you didn’t think it was totally crackpot. … I had that thought when it was coming out of the printer at 3 AM.\u201d
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1551238839456{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=”Odyssey Class of 2018″ font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:center” google_fonts=”font_family:Actor%3Aregular|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][vc_single_image image=”16769″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_single_image image=”16770″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text] Front Row (bottom) J.M. Plumbley, Julian K. Jarboe, Molly Etta, Valerie San Filippo, Sabrina N. Balmick Middle Row Ann Latham Cudworth, Elaine McIonyn, Janea Schimmel, Odyssey Director Jeanne Cavelos, A. Katherine Black Back Row […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":12661,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15820","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t