When I took classes at the Gotham Writers Workshop that's what they drilled into us as their "highly effective" means of teaching the craft.  Well, some of us were good at reading.  Less of that number were good at writing (posting pages online that is); but I tell you everyone, every last one of us was greater than great at critiquing.  Criticising is a sport enjoyed by all.  Even more by atheletes of the arts.

Just read Marc's pages on the blog under this one.  It  so reminded me of the GWW classes and how I dove headlong into these elaborate critiques of my peers' work.  I feel I have to assign a reason for typing this today because I don't think it's evident in what I wrote so far.  I set up this blog to network, read and be read by fellow writers of scripts.  Oh my god, I'm writing a disclaimer!  I want to tell you how I'm about to champion the good elements of Marc's pages so I could thrash the bad ones.  I'm looking for the OK.  That's why I'm writing this.  Well, well.  I guess someone here (whenlightningstrikes) cares whether or not he's liked by a group of faceless screenwriting hopefuls. 

I should have titled this entry, "Paving the road to hell".