Our last two team meetings were pretty much identical. As usual, we met in the library. We didn’t have a editing tool for both meetings, but this didn’t affect things much, since we enjoy editing each others’ pieces without guidance anyway. Our progression has been consistent and steady throughout the semester, and this was reflected in everyone’s writing. Rachael poems and edits are still of the same witty, rhyming style she enjoys writing in, and Leo, after writing mostly fiction, decided to dabble with journalism in a political piece, which I found to be pretty well written. Tal has definitely improved the piece she started with at the beginning of the quarter, and Christina continues to work with voice and narration in her pieces. After unsuccessfully writing a journalistic article of my own, I am looking forward to going back to fiction. As for the final semester piece, I feel like we’re all confident in our ability to choose something to work on or edit.
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Hi Gatos-
I'm happy to see that you appreciate the "unstructured" time, though I do wonder what you mean when you write that you "enjoy editing each others’ pieces without guidance." Do each of you, as authors, feel like you get valuable response from your group mates this way? If you walk away feeling more gratified as a responder than an author, you need to shift the process of your meetings. Remember, as the author you have the right to "control" the conversation to elicit the most useful feedback possible.
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