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This is a bit late, but better late than never. Anyway, the entire English Othello script writing is a lot more difficult than I thought it would be. I mean, the breaking down of scenes to strictly show the plot line, and your chosen theme was fairly easy and not very complicated to do, but after your entire group is done doing that, and being the person to read the entire script and edit it down to about 10 to 15 pages is extremely difficult. If there wasn't so much content, or if Google docs didn't run as slow as it does, a lot less stress would be present. Just today, in class, which was our last work period to finish the script, I was reading through the script, and editing down soliloquies, and removing un-needed dialogue. I was doing my job. But while I was, Google docs was running tolerably slow at first, and I didn't mind, but eventually it got to a point where I couldn't work with it. It was unbearable, and so frustrating at times. The only reason it was slow was probably because some of my group members were still adding text to the script that should have already been done on Tuesday. And yes, that is another frustrating part of the group. Deadlines were missed, so that kind of put me back on the editing part of the script. Deadlines are pretty much over now though, so editing should be a little bit faster and easier to do.

As I was editing the script, I realized that this is an extraordinary task that I had to do. It was difficult, and took a lot of patience to do. I paused for a second, and thought to myself what I had to do. I had to edit down this--currently 25+-page-- script down to a ten to fifteen page script. Not only that, but it has to make sense, and the basic plot line has to be able to be easily identified, along with your chosen theme. Yeah, sounds repetitive since it was explained before in the same blog post and probably the first one, but it has to be repeated, to show the difficulty of this fourth quarter English creative benchmark project. Even though the project is kind of like a ball on a chain that's bound to you--it isn't that bad-- it really gets you to think, and analyze text in Othello. Without this project I wouldn't have read through Othello again, unless a project had to do with it. Overall though, the project is a mind bender, and requires a lot of work.

It tests you, in a way.