Two minutes before class, Max puts his bottle of water on his desk, and resorts his papers. He pulls out copies of the pieces up for workshop. He smiles at everyone, "Hopefully, everyone had a good weekend. I feel pretty recharged since I ended up going outside the city for a little while with a few friends. Brought out a telescope. It's always surprising to see the sky without so many lights."

When the clock finally hits 1:10pm, Max asks, "Alright. Three of you signed up today, which one wants to be first on the chopping block? I promise we'll be easy on you since it's our first workshop." Max isn't quite sure whether anyone will jump to be first as normally he has to call on someone to introduce their work. Most people got fairly self-conscious about discussing their work and leaving themselves open to criticism. But perhaps this class will be different.

Killian had come to the workshop and was sitting in a chair comfortably and at his side was his bag that held a few copies of a new story he was writing. It was the first three chapters of his book and had made at least a few copies each. Since he did not know how many people were going to be there. He saw two others as well as the professor there. So in total in his head were four people including himself. Then the professor spoke up about someone coming up. He took a deep breath and wanted to get the show on the road. "I will go first" said Killian as he got up and went to the desk with his own story in hand.

He was not sure how to go about this since he never attended one of these before. At leas Professor Max was going to show some mercy for the three of them.

Max Simon nods. “Hooray. A volunteer. I was scared that I’d have to pick a name. Alright, we will be starting with Killian’s work. Just so everyone knows, you’re pieces don’t need to be quite this long. Something five pages long would be fine too. But turning in more is better for you in the long run.”

Max takes his copy, and splays with corner of the paper in his hands. “Ok. Why don’t you start us off with what you had in mind for this, and what kinds of things that you feel that you need work on? And then the rest of us will go around the room and say a few things that we thought were done well and a few things that needed improvement.”