My Session #1

This first session of mine was a little rocky at first. The writer worked on an essay talking about the the factories, and how we can improve them. She was stuck for a very long time wondering about solutions to these issues, but she couldn't think of any. Working with me, we were able to come up with a total of seven solutions. I didn't know where to start first because her paper was so well developed. She had everything that the outline asked of, and she even checked off everything on her personal checklist. Her thesis was perfect, her sentence structure was great, and reading this essay I was very uneasy until I saw her solutions paragraph. It was very under-developed and she had about two solutions, that she didn't express very well. Seeing this, I was very happy because I had something to work on, without sitting there looking awkward! I took out a piece of paper, and we started to collaborate. She would say something like, "We need healthcare for them, and I would say, how come? And what could be the outcome of that?" And she would go really into detail until we filled up two pages full of solutions. She was very open to my suggestions, and the trick to unlocking her mind was free writing. It didn't matter what she said, it didn't matter if it was stupid or the answer to achieving world peace, the only thing that mattered, that it was on the paper. If she wanted to take anything out later on, that was her will doing. But all I wanted to know was that she left with enough options to write a great solutions paragraph. I was very nervous at first, and it was so hard to get started. But when I did, it felt great to help another person reach their absolute potential.