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In workshop you can tell the story out loud and then see whether people instantly engage

with it.

Recently in the workshop that I lead with students we were talking about used magazine stores

and how they refused to buy people's collections of national geographic or playboy because no

one ever throws them away so there is no market for them.

And someone else in the group said I wonder if that is how the big box of porn and the

woods happens.

And everyone in that group, 25 people ages 19 to 60, instantly had the shocked look

because they had all as children found the big box of porn in the woods and they all

thought it was just them.

And they had never talked about finding the big box of porn in the woods.

And suddenly someone had said this thing, no one had ever acknowledged.

And they were all desperate to tell their story.

And the room was filled with 100 different versions of the big box of porn in the woods.

It was kind of glorious and that's what you look for in a story.

And that's how workshop kind of allows you to test material to see if people really

engage with it in that completely visceral way.

And that's what you're hoping for.

And it's one of the reasons why I like this book so much is there are so many things that

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