A Quickie Writing Workshop with Allan Wold

I’ve never been much for writing workshops. I think part of my aversion was from a short-story writing course that I took in college. The problem I had with that course was the format. You wrote two short stories, and each one was critiqued by the class while you sat there unable to speak or respond; the writer was left out of the discussion. It left me feeling more like a punching bag than a participant. The critique was rarely useful because, hey, these are students critiquing your work, n...