A Few Opening Remarks:

That we are writers is a given. (Perhaps you don’t yet think of yourself in this way, but the fact that you are here demonstrates (at least) your affiliation for storytelling, if not also your good taste in company.) As members of the InkTank writing workshop, our aim will be to become good readers for each other. Much of our time together will be spent struggling to articulate in an honest and sensitive manner what it is that we understand to be taking place on the page. It isn’t always easy to say what you think you see. And it’s even harder to say it in a way that is lucid and helpful. But we’re all here because we’re writers, because we’re storytellers, because we have something to say. Let’s find the best way to do this. Let’s be generous of our attention and energy.

Here’s my plan: I want to say of this group that we have conversations that teach me something (large or small) about how stories work. And I want to say of your stories that they teach me something about the world, something I didn’t know before and probably wouldn’t. I’d like to know your plan. It matters that we be aware of our expectations here.