Writing update
Okay, so I sat down to write tonight and in a short time I stripped out half of what I'd written and wrote a bunch of entirely different stuff. It's working much better and starting to come together. I've established comfortable starting and stopping points for the scene, and now I'm mostly filling in details.
I have no idea where I'd go with the scene if I wanted to turn it into a full story, but it feels like one of those things that would do well percolating in the back of my head... cargo pilot steps onto an orbital station to find the dock is deserted and everything covered in a fine white dust.
Oh, yeah... we got to nine students by the end of Saturday, so I'll be doing eight critiques every assignment. Five have introduced themselves so far, and the common theme is, "I'm taking this class to get me off my butt and working on my writing." Maybe we need writing circles more than we need workshops.