ODYSSEY WORKSHOP QUOTES


When I attended the Odyssey 2000 Fantasy Workshop, I was quoted twice in the crit circle by Jeanne Cavealos, the writer/editor who created the workshop and runs it magnificently.

She got me when I didn't know it: :-)

• "With a plot, it will be that much better."
• "The image I had of this guy was he was slender and prissy and needed to be roughed up a little."

Quotes of my workshop classmates are at http://www.sff.net/odyssey/grads00.html

An acquaintance of mine, Larry Hodges, a published short fiction comic SF/fantasy writer (http://www.larrytt.com/fantasy/) has shared some quotes with me that he's preparing for Jeanne's consumption at his upcoming Odyssey 2006 workshop.

Enjoy the read:

• Am I the only one here who is smiling and nodding his head and has no idea what this story is about?
• The main conflict in the story is our disagreement over whether it needs conflict.
• If I used the same word over and over, it must have been a really good word.
• Do the aliens wear pants?
• Those aren’t typos, that’s creative writing.
• I think I understand that we’re not supposed to understand the ending.
• That’s an awful lot of words without a plot.
• It’s a nice story, but some characters and a plot would improve it.
• I like it when the main character dies at the start.
• Stop trying to make me write good!
• Do slimy aliens have to wash their clothes a lot?
• The opening made it clear that this was a story we didn’t want to read.
• The story had a great ending, if it had only ended at the end.
• If I had wanted you to tell me everything instead of showing, I’d have asked.
• I love how you resolved the climax by never getting to it.
• That’s one of the best written stories I’ve read, but what happened?
• I guess it’s plausible since you’ve established the characters don’t act plausibly.
• Do all the bad guys have to die?
• It was rather interesting, but in a boring sort of way.
• I like the story’s title, but isn’t that false advertising?
• I like how the story started right in the middle of the action, but will there be a sequel that explains what was going on?
• I know it’s not plausible, but was it interesting?