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posted by [identity profile] piratehead.livejournal.com at 06:44am on 17/08/2004
I'm slightly hostile to "workshop" writing. I think it homogenizes people's work. "Let's all right thinly veiled autobiograpy in simple declarative sentences! Raymond Carver rules!"

Maybe it's changed since the mid-90s when I last gave it a crack.
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 01:38pm on 17/08/2004
If we'd had a month together, we might have been endangered. As it was, it was more of an editing workshop with daily new advice-givers and 3 or 4 constants overseeing our dialog. There was a great deal more advice given, many in the form of pithy phrases, but it was amusing how often death and hunting motifs re-emerged in the advice of the daily visitors.

We did very little writing in the workshop, except in the margins of each other's papers, editing and proposing changes, and all disagreeing with each other over so many aspects of style and writing. In the short run, we were in no real danger of shipwrecking each others' styles.
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