Taos Toolbox -- Days 4 and 5

We have now completed the initial critiques for every author.  I have given five mini-lectures.  Walter has performed his exegesis of CASABLANCA and his index-card re-plotting of a student synopsis, a technique borrowed from Melinda Snodgrass.  It is Friday night, everyone is exhausted by literary aspiration, and there are plans for dinner, drinking, and/or hot tubbing.

But something is missing -- so far this year, no bear.   This is last year's bear, a used bear as it were:

Memorable quotes from the critique sessions:


"I could watch a person getting shot in the head, without having to vomit."


"It's always a mad hermit in the basement, isn't it?"


"All you left for me to critique is the cooking pots."


"This piece is Charles Stross meets a literary novel I never read."


"You have White Dimension Syndrome."


"Find a better disease."