Sometimes, when you're in the darkest and gloomiest part of the writing process, the workshop cliche is what saves you

Source: The Gnomon Workshop

Usually, the suggested fixes that you're given by a writing workshop are pretty mechanical and, oftentimes, not very coherent. The thing that workshop does well, though, is diagnose the problems that need to be fixed. Because stories are so complicated and need to work on so many levels, it's very possible to create a story th…