The Dysfunctional Workshop | via Ditchwalk
Great bit by Mark Barrett on writing workshops and how to figure out whether or not the one you’re in is going to kill your soul.
If you’re a writer (or not) and aren’t following Mark on Twitter you should be. That’s how you get chunky little tidbits like this:
Nothing that follows excuses authorial narcissism. Fiction writing requires an author to constantly debate their own weaknesses and biases, even if only for reasons of self-preservation. Because if you can’t police your own nonsense, others will be happy to do it for you.