One of the short stories I submitted recently got rejected. It is just as well. I would like to change the ending, but I haven't come up with an alternate. Maybe I will work on that. Maybe I won't.
My Eng 215 at MSU is busy peer reviewing the member's short stories. Listening to my students discuss each others' work is inspiring. People walk past and look in because there is all this noise coming from the classroom, and it isn't the instructor droning on about esoteric theories concerning the placement of an epiphany in relation to the climax. I don't discuss those theories anyway. My classes are focused on production. I want to read the student's work, and I want to hear them discussing their work.
One question that comes up is why are they going to workshop a story after I have given it a grade. The answer is this is an opportunity to have a real world review by people who understand what they are doing, are familiar with the short story form, and their only vested interest is in helping one another. This gives the author an opportunity to have the work reviewed without it being weighed in the scales of my rubric.
Pax
My Eng 215 at MSU is busy peer reviewing the member's short stories. Listening to my students discuss each others' work is inspiring. People walk past and look in because there is all this noise coming from the classroom, and it isn't the instructor droning on about esoteric theories concerning the placement of an epiphany in relation to the climax. I don't discuss those theories anyway. My classes are focused on production. I want to read the student's work, and I want to hear them discussing their work.
One question that comes up is why are they going to workshop a story after I have given it a grade. The answer is this is an opportunity to have a real world review by people who understand what they are doing, are familiar with the short story form, and their only vested interest is in helping one another. This gives the author an opportunity to have the work reviewed without it being weighed in the scales of my rubric.
Pax