{"id":6859,"date":"2018-09-19T21:35:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T20:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wefloat.co.uk\/site\/?p=6859"},"modified":"2018-09-19T21:35:09","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T20:35:09","slug":"reflect-and-regroup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wefloat.co.uk\/site\/2018\/09\/19\/reflect-and-regroup\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflect and regroup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just before I begin my next module, I want to take a while to reflect on what I learned during the last one: Collaborative Script Development.<\/p>\n

I struggled with this module for several reasons. Firstly, I found working with a team who I wasn\u2019t in the same room as really challenging. Secondly I felt my voice was largely ignored within the team as we discussed how to approach the project. And thirdly I was not convinced my ideas were going to be funny in the same vein as the show I was writing for.<\/p>\n

At one point I felt so far behind on my work that I thought I should ask for an extension. I didn\u2019t. I took two days off work and got caught up. See, whilst I hadn\u2019t spent as much time sitting at my desk and writing as I felt I should have, I had thought about my ideas constantly: ironed out niggles, developed my characters, ensured my subplot wove neatly in with the major comic beats of the show. And I ended up handing my work in well before the deadline. But at that point I still felt like it was just a case of handing it in on time so I didn\u2019t forfeit any more grade points, and just accepting that this was not going to be my best work ever.<\/p>\n

And it turns out it was my best work so far. I got a similar grade to my last project – just a touch higher – and I got some great feedback. I fully accept my shortcomings on this project – I knew there was more work to do and I didn\u2019t leave myself the time to do it. But I got a great mark considering a lot of it was so rushed and I do really take heart from that.<\/p>\n

What I will be taking from this experience is as follows:<\/p>\n

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  1. Setting a work schedule that I can stick to (I need days off!)<\/li>\n
  2. Remembering that I do a lot of work away from my desk<\/li>\n
  3. Not abandoning the work, or avoiding tutorials, just because I feel like I am behind<\/li>\n
  4. Write this blog – ending each week looking at what I\u2019ve done and what I need to do next was helpful in the first module, and not something I maintained over this past one. I need to do that.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Just before I begin my next module, I want to take a while to reflect on what I learned during the last one: Collaborative Script Development. I struggled with this module for several reasons. Firstly, I found working with a team who I wasn\u2019t in the same room as really challenging. Secondly I felt my… Continue reading Reflect and regroup<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[137,116],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wefloat.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6859"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wefloat.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wefloat.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wefloat.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wefloat.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.wefloat.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6861,"href":"http:\/\/www.wefloat.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6859\/revisions\/6861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wefloat.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wefloat.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wefloat.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wefloat.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}