Not exclusively true, but I do think the most interesting work often has the most challenging time in workshop.
The work we've seen so many times before—that flaw, the over-familiarity, also makes it easier to discuss. & in turn the work we haven’t seen before requires readers to stretch & challenge their usual frameworks, vocabularies, ways of seeing.
So if you are in a workshop right now & feel like the comments are all over the place & that if someone were to ask you "how did your workshop go?" you would have no idea to answer: don't lose heart. You are probably on to something.
Keep an ear open for the readers who see what you're up to & who can help you close the gap between the work's current form & the form you long for it to take.
