Group Meeting #7

In this last meeting we met in the library. We started off by reading "Movies of the Reader's Mind" and, once we finished, tried to understand how exactly to apply this to a piece. We decided to try to apply it to Christina's piece since her piece was new and we though that the initial impressions we would give of our "movie" would be more helpful. Her piece was the beginning of a short story and we found that our "movies" were fairly accurate with what she was trying to convey.
We finished doing Christina's piece and still had time, so we decided to apply the same procedure to Hadler's piece because it too was a new piece. After doing this Hadler realized that his piece had not had the same effect he had hoped. He wanted a more "creepy" description, while we seemed to envision a more lively setting.
Once we finished with this we decided to discuss the effects our meetings have had on our revisions. We all agreed that we revise according to the feedback we get from our group mates. We agreed that this is one of the first things we usually look for when a revise a piece. We also discussed that our revisions most often are reflective of the agenda you give us for the meetings. We all agreed that we find some slightly more applicable than others, (We all felt that the "asking a question" procedure was very beneficial and resulted in fruitful feedback that was directly applicable to our own concerns about our piece.) In general, we were all using each others feedback to improve and feel that these group meetings are very helpful in furthering our writing.