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<h1>Zk | Further Confusion Writing Workshop 2023</h1>
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<h2 id="workshop-notes">Workshop notes</h2>
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<h3 id="friday-critical-reading">Friday — Critical reading</h3>
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<ul>
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<li>Intro<ul>
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<li>Intro self (incl. “this is for MFA” spiel)</li>
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<li>Allow others to intro</li>
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</li>
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<li>Ice breaker: what is your least favorite part of your favorite movie?</li>
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<li>Lead into what is a text<ul>
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<li>Books/writing, sure, but also anything that tells a story — film, games, etc</li>
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<li>Thus, what is critical reading?</li>
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</li>
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<li>Intentional engagement with a text, especially with regards to the self<ul>
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<li>Back to ice breaker: how do you intentionally engage with your favorite film?</li>
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<li>How do we intentionally engage with a text in furry?<ul>
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<li>What do we like in a furry text? What don’t we like?</li>
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<li>Notably, not asking what makes a text furry, that we are furries is what enables us to read into that context</li>
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<li>Thus, how do we engage with a text that <em>we</em> feel is furry <em>as</em> furries?</li>
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</li>
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<li>What goes into critical reading?<ul>
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<li>Layers:<ul>
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<li>Mechanical: presentation, word choice, language usage, writing style</li>
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<li>Subjective: emotional impact, plot effectiveness, evocative descriptions</li>
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</li>
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<li>Reading exercise:<ul>
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<li>Pick one of these two categories to pay attention to first and read, then read for the second</li>
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<li>Critique tomorrow, but preview: we’re not tearing a text apart, we’re asking it questions:<ul>
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<li>How did we feel the plot worked? Was there a structure? Could we follow it?</li>
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<li>What was told? What was left out? How did (not) knowing make us feel?</li>
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<li>What type of language usage was there? Word choice? Style?</li>
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<li>How about emotional impact? Was the story impactful? Did the mechanics help or hinder us?</li>
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<li>Was it evocative? Was it furry? Did that work?</li>
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</li>
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<li>Be ready to summarize</li>
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<li>10 mins to read</li>
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<li><sub>~</sub></li>
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<li>Have someone summarize</li>
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<li>Talk through the mechanical and subjective layers, drilling down into specifics</li>
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<li>Talk through how the exercise felt<ul>
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<li>was it useful? Tiring? Enjoyable?</li>
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</li>
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<li>Tomorrow, we’ll go through critiquing writing and actually workshop a piece — one of mine that has already been workshopped and published, so just an example of critiquing for a present author.</li>
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<li>Optional homework:<ul>
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<li>Write a short ~500 word snippet (or pick one already written) to go through a gentle workshop, think about what we talked through today while writing</li>
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<li>Email it to me and I’ll put it online for all to read in the workshop</li>
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<li>Will be asking how it felt etc</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<h3 id="saturday-critiquing-in-workshop">Saturday — Critiquing in workshop</h3>
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<li>What is workshopping?<ul>
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<li>More important, what is it <em>not?</em><ul>
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<li>Tearing apart a story</li>
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<li>Tearing down the author (Maslanka story)</li>
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<li>Editing a piece</li>
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</li>
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<li>Talk about your engagement with the piece — remember list of questions from yesterday</li>
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<li>Author:<ul>
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<li>Listen to feedback and take in the ways your work affected others</li>
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<li>Will talk about writing for workshops tomorrow</li>
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</li>
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<li>Types of workshops and such<ul>
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<li>Silent author<ul>
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<li>How that works</li>
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<li>Why — active listening, no shaping responses</li>
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<li>Participatory discussion<ul>
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<li>Better for pieces earlier in process</li>
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<li>Feedback as to where to take it</li>
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<li>The role of the facilitator<ul>
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<li>Prevent stalling</li>
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<li>Keep on track</li>
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<li>Pay attention to mood, etc</li>
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<li>Tone<ul>
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<li>Talk to the piece, not the author — some don’t even use the author’s name, pretend they aren’t there (not particularly a fan, but also stay away from addressing comments to ‘you’)</li>
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<li>Talk about yourself, your responses, your questions</li>
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<li>Changing language<ul>
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<li>Stay away from generating shared values/taste</li>
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<li>Imagine and invite change</li>
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<li>We don’t want to over-reward author because then it becomes less about creativity and more about writing for success</li>
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<li>Sample workshop:<ul>
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<li><a href="https://makyo.ink/jump">https://makyo.ink/jump</a></li>
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<li>10 mins to read</li>
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<li>Workshop discussion with silent author, then bring author in</li>
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<li>Discuss how it felt</li>
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</ul>
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<li>Tomorrow: writing to receive critique/actually receiving critique</li>
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<h3 id="sunday-writing-to-expect-critique">Sunday — Writing to expect critique</h3>
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<li><a href="https://makyo.io/fcww23s">https://makyo.io/fcww23s</a></li>
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<li>Writing and vulnerability<ul>
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<li>Vulnerability in creation</li>
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<li>The terrifying ordeal of being seen</li>
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<li>How to manage having one’s vulnerability openly addressed</li>
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<li>A lot is on the facilitator<ul>
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<li>Ensuring discussion stays on the work</li>
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<li>Ensuring <em>uncomfortable</em> silence is filled<ul>
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<li>How silence feels</li>
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<li>How to fill silence if it happens (ask questions)</li>
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<li>Engaging with responses as author<ul>
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<li>Always good to thank, but overdoing can weaken your position in your own eyes</li>
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<li>Maintain authorial vision ---- everything you get (even negative) is encouragement and opportunity to change, but not a demand</li>
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<li>Friction and vulnerability:<ul>
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<li>Maintain openness (even physical — half smile, willing hands)</li>
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<li>Maintain distance</li>
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<li>Feel free to maintain boundaries, facilitator is there to help, can guide/move on from topic</li>
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</li>
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<li>Take notes! Can be overwhelming, so read through and think before blithely implementing</li>
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<li>Workshops:<ul>
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<li>One person summarize and lead in with discussion</li>
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<li>Try one response at a time vs open discussion</li>
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</li>
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<li>Reflect on how that felt</li>
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<p>Page generated on 2023-02-18</p>
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