I need to celebrate!

Autobiography break through! I knew I wasn't feeling my paper. So I revised it and took it even farther in the wrong direction. Lydia read my paper to me and I took notes. She had some great insights but the most helpful part was when she read and she read a sentence in the way I heard it then I knew it was a good bit. When she read it and I didn't hear me, then I knew I was going in the wrong direction. So I went home and mostly changed it, heavy deletions, and CLARITY. I'm not saying it is done, but I feel good about it. I feel like it has potentional to be a solid piece and before I just felt fear. So in relation to my class here are the insights I gained.
1. I knew that my Elbow "felt sense" was not what I wanted. But I felt it, and how do I teach that skill for my students to feel it? It is a moving, ellusive skill. Prior to the class I may have just thrown my hands in the air and said, "I don't know!" But I am starting to form an approach, informal, practice, voice activities, etc... may form the basis of my new approach. Thank you OUAWP!
2. Oh boy are my kids going to see my drafts! First snippets of what I think is important in my life, then interview and Chris's take on my life, first draft--too clinical, second draft--even more clinical and long. I got bored twice in my own paper. Third draft barely looks like draft one and two. And even now it is not done. I know it is flawed, but it is flawed in a way that has possibilites. I don't feel like crying when I read it. I feel like digging in and making it better. This is a new process for me and I am liking it, even though it is certainly more work.