Writing Workshop #3

Reed something really interesting during the writing exercises. I don't remember the exact quote, but what he said was something about how ironic it is that he hates (and therefore never writes) when other people are the room when he's trying to work, but that he's making us write in a room full of people regardless of how he feels.

And I'm the same exact way; in fact I snapped at my little brother today when I was helping him write a speech because he started talking when I was fixing some of the sentence structure. Simply saying thank you put me on edge when I was dealing with fourth grade grammar.

But that being said, I think there is a lot of value in being forced to write with a room full of people. It helps you cut out that "I need to be inspired" aspect of getting shit done. I like being trained to just write without having your novel writing utopia around you. It helps you create structure in a field that has a negligible amount of structure. You write when you can, it's your job.