When you’re critiquing, sometimes you’ll miss the point of a story or book. That happened to me a bit in today’s workshop session.
For one, I had some company. Nearly everybody who critiqued one story was saying that they weren’t sure what the intent of the plot was or putting forward their own theories – until our workshop leader took his turn, and more or less nailed it. (I guess that’s why he’s the guy in charge.)
And in another story, I was the only one who missed a more minor point – the gender of the main character – everybody else had identified the narrator as ‘her’, and I’d written ‘he’ in my write-up. Oh well.
I’m having a great time and learning lots. Mistakes are part of that learning process, right?
Absolutely. The only way we learn is by making mistakes
And thanks for joining the What If Blogfest!!! Excited to see what you come up with
I’d love to be doing a class like that again
I did a few here & there during my undergrad/honours studies, loved it!
There’s no such thing as a mistake, it’s all a learning curve
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