Thought For The Day
Critical Mass and Our Girl in Chicago both link to an amusing attack on writers’ workshops. I couldn’t help thinking of one of Kingsley Amis’ apophthegms:
If there’s one word that sums up everything that’s gone wrong since the War, it’s Workshop.
In searching the web for the exact phrasing, I found that I had forgotten the sequel:
After Youth, that is.
Of course there’s nothing wrong with the sort of workshop that contains power tools or more primitive equivalents.