#unworkshop

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Writers need editors like tapeworms need moist intestines to live inside. Editors have real jobs and give writers gigs. What does knowing another writer ever get you? You have to read their fucking writing all the time, that's all. The Unworkshop would function much the same as the Workshop. A student would rise, read a poem or short story and then sit. Classmates would hem and haw. "I love the bovine imagery but I just didn't like the character of the butcher. Maybe it should be a mail carrier instead." Modest praise would beget wild advice, as often is the case. No one ever tells you what they really think in workshops.