EPTTo describe what this feels like: think of the last time you asked another person out. There's a weird, three to four second terror (if you actually like the person, certainly), in which you're not in control of your mouth, you're outside your own skin, you really have very little control over the pace and choice of words. You work on instinct. It's fucking bizarre.
Now, stretch that feeling out to two and a half hours. For me, at least, that's what being workshopped feels like. No matter what people are saying. It was different when I was an undergrad, but at the grad school level, it's an entirely different game.
I'm wondering what terrifies everyone else? What kind of things give you stress stomachaches, keep you up most of the night? Or, if you're me, buy a half pint of Jamison, curl up on the couch with a book, and slowly get nice and drunk?
