God, for months I’ve been trying to write a long, comprehensive post about everything that I resent or that annoys me about the whole writing workshop phenomenon, & I keep not finishing it, so I’m gonna try just posting through it piece by piece. The structure of a semester of a writing workshop usually consists of a repeated loop for most of the semester followed by a wrapping-up process at the end of the semester. The loop goes basically like this:
Some workshops have a workshop-subsequent-draft stage round for their final round, and ime writers groups definitely cover multiple drafts
I knew I wanted to write from the second grade
But I never did these
They just seemed like a bad idea
Thanks for articulating this
Makes me feel better
ok lets start a writing workshop