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Where are you in your soundwriting process? We are currently in the revision part of the soundwriting process. We have finished our script and are working on fixing any parts before we record.
What’s been done and what’s still left to do? We have finished our script and we have practiced it fully through. What is left to do now is record!
What are your biggest accomplishments and failures so far? The biggest accomplishments so far has been finally finishing the script and hearing how our voices come together. As far as failures go, we have had many moments of stumbling over our words so we have practiced those words and phrases much more.
How do you feel about that? I am really proud of what has come from this assignment and how Hailey and I sound together after lots of practice.
What have you learned so far? I have learned a lot about the importance of being clear in my writing as well since it will be spoken! Sometimes words can make sense on paper, but when I read them out loud they were fairly odd sounding. It is all about trial and error.
What ideas did you grapple with? We struggled coming up with the full idea and connections we wanted to make between Charles Olson and Sappho. It was tricky finding resources for Sappho since she lived so long ago.
Which problems have you solved, and which are you continuing to grapple with? We have solved the idea of connections between Sappho and Olson, and also the right poems to work with them. Now, we just need to find ways to incorporate them fully and energetically when we record.
How might you over come the challenges and struggles? We will make sure to practice fully in order to get to our fullest potential. We will make sure to break up sections of poems as well in order to fully explain them and prove our points.
What decisions have emerged lately as you plan and work on your project? We have come to many decisions of meeting during free periods to work on reading the script, and we also have had to rearrange words and phrases to flow better out loud.
What is the next step in your composing process? We will just be revising and cutting down parts that may sound off.
What do you need to do, know, and write? We need to record and re-read, make sure we know all the names and words of poems that may be harder to pronounce, and we may need to revise some parts.
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How are you feeling about your progress toward achieving your purpose? I feel really great about the progress we have made. We have lots of information about a feministic lense in poetry that makes it very clear to the listeners by the end. We are hoping to get them to think more about the authors and their point of view, and I think by showcasing the contrast between the two poems, we do that well.
How are you feeling about your progress toward affecting your audience? I feel really great about our progress affecting our audience with out energy and content. I think that we really do well pushing a new idea to them, and providing them an insightful way of looking at poetry.
How are you feeling about your progress toward situating your work in time and place of your context? I feel good about our progress situating our work in time and place. I think we could do a little bit more desciribing the scene of Charles Olson in 1950, but we give a lot of background on Sappho and the contrast between the two. We also bring it back to society today.
How are you feeling about your progress toward following the expectations of your genre? I think that we have done a really good job making this podcast seem informative and educational, but also a discussion. Hailey and I have worked really hard to match each other well and make it an actual discussion rather than a script.
