To be Biased or Not to be Biased Week of Nov 10-14

To be Biased or Not to be Biased Week of Nov 10-14

It’s Blogging Time! Ok, so my workshop group buddies have learned something new about me: I hate suicide stories. It’s not that I knew someone personally that has taken their own life, but rather as someone in the group oh so perfectly pointed out: I have too strong a personality to accept the more ambiguous reasons why people commit suicide. This fact, however; did not interfere with my work shopping process. No, I’m not trying to defend myself at all here, I really just have nothing better to talk about. As I said during the workshop, I can cast aside all personal feeling while reviewing a story. But my dislike of a particular type of story does make me work harder at finding all those little hinges that just need a bit of tweaking. If a story has the ability to make a believer out of a skeptic, that must mean it’s one hell of a story. So with that, I read all stories with a certain level of an incredulous attitude, forever playing the cynical devil’s advocate. Honestly, I think that’s how I can best serve these stories and their respective authors. I’m glad at least one person agreed with me on that point in class the other day. So, I will say I hope I’m not being too mean, and that everyone finds my comments both constructive and helpful. And if not, well, I did say I wouldn’t defend myself for being honest. Who doesn’t like it when someone is forthright with them, right?