Some guy in my sf class came to me after class today--I've never talked to him before--and told me he was terrified of getting his story critiqued and would I look at it for him and help him figure out causal chain and character goal and stuff? I thought that was pretty cool. It's pretty good writing, too.
There are some students in that class who are brutal, and while a lot of the feedback is well thought out and insightful, a lot of it isn't constructive at all. So glad I went through Odyssey first, or I probably would have decided that this critique stuff was not for me.
