I'm reminded of a friend who took a class in which participants were asked to share their efforts after being given a half-hour to write on a prompt. She referred to this part of the class as "showing each other our turds." But a large part of her distaste was for the polite exclamations that everyone was expected to utter after each contribution, and for the assumption of some of her classmates that everything they wrote was golden in its raw, unedited form, simply because they had written it.
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