Workshop

My writing workshop starts tomorrow night. I'm nervous, because I haven't taken a workshop since sophomore year in college. I'm nervous about impressing my workshop members and teacher, and I'm worried about caring what they think of me. I know I'm a good writer--why should I care if they approve? I can pull a solid workshop story out of my ass. And yet, I haven't done that in a long time. I'm confident that I could fucking rock this workshop (it's just a nonprofit that advertises on the subway--it's not like writing at Reed, where people expect you to be rewriting Finnegan's Wake, or else you're "not really living up to expectations). I'm not sure how open to be, how recpeptive, how vulnerable to let myself be.