A "kick in the nuts"
Yeah... that's what my writing instructor said about reading our "blackout" scenes. He called it a kick in the nuts... and it was. Six of us showed up tonight (all men)... and we all read our 10 blackouts... and it was literally a kick in the nuts. Nothing was funny... nothing was good... nothing. We all felt bad for each other... we were all humbled... it hurt. It hurt.