last week, there was a newcomer with a story, like there always should be.
his tale was an very much concept driven and his style was erratic and forceful, and from what i saw, he was trying too hard to be an action-packed script rather than the opening to a novelette.
how im achieving outcome 1:
when we reviewed his excerpt, i had noticed my own distaste for the style, and in doing so recognized my hastiness. i was ready to criticize and mock, and that was wrong.
how im achieving outcome 7:
i took a breath and waited until it was my turn to speechify. when it came time, i asked the writer whether he wanted to hear some constructive criticism. by this time i had composed something much diluted from the earlier tirade my thoughts had prepared.
he agreed to hear me out and i recommended that for greatest clarity, he might wish to slow the pacing and describe the paradigms of this story's reality in a paragraph or two, so as not to shock the reader culturally. this input opened the floor for more constructive discussion and the people who had given no advice suddenly made comments that one could tell, the writer was actually gaining insight from...
this i think is a development of my ability to empathize with others.
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