who is keeping you from writing?

I am surprised sometimes at how often I will go to a workshop and find writers there who do not have a manuscript they have brought to be critiqued. Some simply have not yet written anything and are only dreaming of becoming authors. But others have written something, or have planned it out very carefully, but are not ready to share the results.

On the one hand, this makes good sense. You don't want to offer up something you know isn't ready for critique. That would be a waste of everyone'...