"Vomit Draft"
I tried to avoid it, but this is eating me up all day as I try to re-design one of my stories for WotF. I know a lot of people refer to the 'vomit draft' in their own writing process. It's a disgusting phrase, and it's even worse in a workshop. Imagine being asked "is this a vomit draft?" by someone critiquing your work. That's just one step above "I'm sorry I don't have the copy you gave me. I used it for toilet paper and common decency dictates that I flush it instead of returning it to you."
Workshop critiques are full of phrases from the Turkey City Lexicon and other such compendiums. It's a coded internal language used by writers to exclude others. Every group does it. None of the items in the TCL are personally insulting as "vomit draft." Why do writers have to hate themselves and their work so much that they can't say anything nice about it?
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