 (It helps to encourage the author to go big, to write down things she might never otherwise attempt, to encourage her to think of the workshop as a way to test out wild ideas.)
From Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping, Matthew Salesses  This is not summary or criticism but transparency about the ways the workshop has already constructed the story in its imagination.
From Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping, Matthew Salesses  It is hard to go from being the center to centering someone else. We see this truth every day. It is difficult to give up power.
From Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping, Matthew Salesses  When the workshop critiques a manuscript from the position of an unspecified, and therefore normative, reader – or when it similarly claims "universal" values as if values are not cultural – it makes fiction's greatest strength its greatest weakness.
From Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping, Matthew Salesses  To know the history is to know one's experience of being and speaking in the world is not alone. It is to know what conversations are open to you and your work. It is to know a certain audience.
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