Wednesday, September 17, 2008

I have really enjoyed doing the workshops the past two classes. It's actually been more fun than I thought it was going to be. Going through the stories as a group really helps to see things in the stories that you might have missed on your own. Also I found that it helped to be able to talk things out as a group to try to get more ideas for the writer. It was also interesting to see how people would sometimes disagree about how certain parts of the story should be changed/left alone. It really makes you think about how difficult it can be to write something that large amounts of people are going to enjoy. Also I thought it was interesting that a couple of different times people took away things from the story that the writer hadn't intended.
I really enjoyed having my story workshopped because it was interesting to see what different people saw as the most important parts of my story. I also really appreciated all the different ideas that people had to help my story flow better and make more sense. I would never have come up with a few of the good ideas that other people had for my story. In the end I think it was a really good experience for me.

1 comment:

Theo Hummer said...

Sounds like you had a good workshop experience! I'm so glad. Sorting through conflicting advice is one of the weirdest, hardest, most interesting and ultimately I think most productive parts of being in a workshop. A bunch of smart people look at what you wrote and tell you things to do, and you can't possibly do all of them (especially the ones that pull in opposite directions)! Deciding what advice to take and what to save for another time or another story is a really important part of figuring out who you are as a writer.

Cheers,
Theo