I love workshop weeks. At first I used to dread them, spending tireless hours reading and critiquing the work of my peers, but now I really enjoy it, I think because we have gotten into a routine in my group. It is becoming more predictable: everyone in my group has a very unique writing style and topic choice, and I am starting to see people write similarly every time-I mean that in a lot of ways: not that their topics are similar necessarily, but each one connects to the previous. Sarah writes stories geared for children because that is her passion, Craig always has some twisted, witty, incredibly metaphoric intense story, Leah always has a very imaginative, detailed story, Ali's stories always end with some great twist that leaves us wanting more, Hunter writes about nature, hiking, wilderness with great voice and captures this life and essence, Chris writes very well thought out, imaginative, sweet stories, and Adam writes very sarcastically and is very in tune with the college, teenage lifestyle mentality: he can relate, and joke at the same time. His style is very conversational too. Each of them bring something different to the table. And, they bring a lot of feedback, critique and praise to workshop: I have gotten a lot of fabulous, and productive input from my group on how to make my pieces better: I appreciate and value their direct honesty, and the time that they spend on my pieces, it is not half-assed.

I guess this is like a little mini "ode" to my workshop group, but we were talking today about how our workshop is pretty kickass, so I thought I would echo that praise by letting each of them know they are talented writers and workshoppers! Keep it up team. I would be interested to see a counter argument from my fellow classmates in regards to their workshop group, and if it compares to the awesomeness we have going. I am looking forward to workshop on Wednesday! I bet you guys have some comments for my piece...