From Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping, Matthew Salesses
Basically, you should reflect on your aesthetics as a writer, what you want to do with your writing and how and why.
From Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping, Matthew Salesses Stylistically, each writer might highlight sentences that best represent the author's style and underline sentences that least represent the author's style (with explanations for what the style is and why these specific sentences) or so forth.
From Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping, Matthew Salesses (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.
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