Tonight we brought in first drafts of our stories. We passed our pages to the person who happened to be sitting to our left.
That person took a pencil to our stories and did a "broad strokes" edit, using 12 points from John Dusfresne's The Lie that Tells a Truth.
We made squiggly lines and circled things and wrote copious notes for 2 1/2 hours. I can't begin to tell you how exciting it was. Callie--who happened to be sitting to my left--well, she pointed out things I never would have seen on my own. Thanks, Callie, for the thoughtful and surprising edit.