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- Me with my partner the first time after the lecture. We just got to know each other slightly but didn't really talk about the work.
- First communication made over email after reading Dolly's blackboard submission. I introduced myself and asked about Richard's artwork - his style, inspirations etc - and then promised to send some of my own work.

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- Richard and I continued our collaboration over instagram - we found that we would respond to our messages quicker as we both checked our phones more constantly than our emails - I'd hope this would mean the process would be a bit quicker
-Richard gave me his instagram art page and I screenshot the pieces which I liked the most and then sent them to him with comments on what I liked about each piece.
- I sent Richard 3 pieces of my writing - one was a short story, one was an automatic writing exercise we did in class about artists and writers, and one was the second summative from last semester. Richard replied as he read the pieces, telling me what he liked about each piece

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- Things slowed down a bit this week... Richard was a bit slow to reply and I started to get worried as I felt as though others were progressing a lot quicker than I was
- Richard sent some sketches on one of the pieces I'd sent him as he liked the character in this piece. I liked the sketches but couldn't see the full picture for the final piece and felt as though there had been a breakdown in communication
- I sent Richard some messages asking him for some help - what were his thoughts on my piece, how did he visualise the text and art working on the page, what about the length - I commented that his sketches were quite detailed so maybe I could write more simplistically in contrast - or try poetry - the experimentation lecture had interested me

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- Richard eventually replied, and after writing on blackboard and talking to a few course mates and friends I decided to be more proactive - I read Sasha's blackboard entry and decided storyboarding would've been a good idea, but I felt we were far enough into the project that we had a basic idea
- I wrote down pages 1-8 and wrote a summary of each section that I planned and sent it to Richard. He responded positively and is now sketching his ideas for the passages. I will now write 8 passages of prose but focusing on thought - interior monologue style perhaps - to contrast with Richards detail
- our storyboard is a man who has reached the last stop on the bus to his childhood home which he hasn't visited in years, and each page is either a flashback or a reflection on the flashback by the man - the piece ends with him leaving the bus and I told Richard that I'd leave the writing ambiguous as to whether his ending is positive or negative and that he could either choose in his illustrations or also leave it vague

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- at first I was quite apprehensive about collaborating as I don't like relying on other people and there have been times in this project that have proven my fears to be true, however, the project is looking more positive now and after seeing other people's results it has opened me up to the idea of collaborating again in the future
- after outlining the next stage of work, I found that it was easier to respond to Richards earlier feedback as there was a clear image in my mind of where the project was going
- one of the major problems I had was that I expected the collboration to include elements of a distributed collaboration, whereas this has definitely been a complimentary collaboration alone - overcoming this expectation and disappointment has allowed me to move forward in the project and focus on creating a good quality final piece of work
- there was a lack of integrative collaboration and this threw me off, however now that we both have a mutual understanding of where the project is going, hopefully the actual creating the final piece of work will happen quickly

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- looking back, I should've made further contact sooner and made more of an effort to find a common ground in our work - the collaborative process can be very difficult if you don't have a shared vision
- I was quite nervous about sending my work to Richard at the start but I think I did quite well in letting go of my fears as I realised he too had to do that in showing me his illustrations and that was perhaps something we could bond over - even if we didn't work together, just showing each other our work and giving feedback was collaborative as we tried to look for similarities in our work.

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- this is the point in the project where I started to worry and then I thought about how this would be good material for my reflection - it highlighted to me how communication is the key element in collaboration - you need to be on the same page

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- I feel like I've had a positive attitude towards being open towards other people's criticism of my work - I'm lucky that Richard gave very constructive work that I was able to incorporate into further drafts - think it also helped that we were both giving feedback on each other's work and so this aspect of the collaboration was very pleasant.