What a workshop is for me is the perspective of someone else who, lets be honest, doesn't care about my feelings. I'm cool with that, that's what I like. When I write an essay that looks great to me and I come to find out that I screwed up at the most fundamental level and a peer tells me my work is kind of shitty, I'm happy to go back and turn my shit into gold. I never had a real workshop experience until the first paper we did for this class. My vignettes piece was intense and I put a lot of work into it, I thought it was gold. Turns out, it was gold with a little shit on it. When I did the peer edit in class, i came away absolutely thrilled that I had a tool to scrape the shit off of it and let the pure gold shine through. People could see my thoughts for what they were. Especially within the genre our class write in, clarity is usually priority number one to help the reader understand us.
In conclusion, I like workshops.
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