Roni - Week 9 - moving forward

Last time I wrote, I talked about feeling trepidation going into our group meeting, this time, I'm excited. Last time we met we as a group we made (what felt like) major strides in flushing out our story. We recognized that we collectively tend to latch onto one of our big points and then tree branch out with all the possibilities and all the minutiae of that one point and then circle back to the big picture just to be frustrated that all the little details that we talked about possibly negate something else. But this time we forced ourselves to look at the whole picture the whole time, and focus on the big issues, the big climaxes, the big goals. This approach helped us see things that potentially weren't working and to find the things that worked really well to advance plot. As Ellen said, we killed our darlings. A simultaneously terrifying and exciting thing to do while working on this particular project. As a group, though, I think we walked away from our last meeting feeling like we made strides in the right direction and that we're on track to continue moving forward.