I cannot believe that is already midterm (or past it by now)! This week has flown by and I'm getting nervous because the end of the semester is going to be here so quickly and there's so much to be done before then! Oh, well....

This week was nice because it was another week to kind of catch up and focus on the actual MRP and the genres. We had to write another genre and peer review everyone else's 3rd and 4th genres. I already reviewed my group's 3rd genres (accidentally too early), so the plan was to get the 4th done on Sunday night. I think I'm going to do that now, though.

I honestly haven't even done my 4th genre as we speak, but I am working on it! It's hard because the processes you have to use to create genres are, by their very nature, creative. You must be original and put yourself in the position of the client or in the voice of whomever that genre is from. My research is more directed to answering the foundation questions I had generated, so there isn't a lot of research I'm using to write the genres. Citing things may be a problem. But I'm now researching more that is relevant to my genres instead of my foundation questions. That got me thinking, though, "Are the foundation questions supposed to be directly related to our genres and their purposes?" I think so. But I thought I had already accounted for that.....oh, well. :)

So, since I haven't done a lot for the few assignments we had this week, there isn't a whole lot I have realized that I wasn't aware of before. But I guess that I learned that I may need to re-evaluate either my genres or my foundation questions and will almost definitely have to do more research. I did, however, realize that there are things that I will undoubtedly "miss" when it comes to creative writing, as Cindy and Geneva pointed out to me. Others' input is definitely important and almost necessary to help make a project the best it can be (this reminds me of when I was growing up and habitually told my mother that I couldn't find my shirt/skirt/etc for church and a few seconds later, she returned with the very item in her hand and I was left feeling like I was blind!).