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Kings
Court
Compromise;
something we have been learning since kindergarten. It’s the middle
ground, the in-between. I always thought that compromising was easy.
But, that opinion changed when I had to compromise on something that
I take a lot of pride in. That something happens to be my writing.
And the people I had to compromise and work with, were two of my best
friends.
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It all starts in spectrum
way back in November. For a project, my friends and I were assigned
to write a play for our class. Us being the writers we are, we
decided to write the whole thing out, then script it. In short, we
ended up writing a 31 page, 13,500 word, story that took us seven
months; in fact we just finished it up a couple weeks ago. However
the path to the finish was riddled with trouble, and times that we
had to compromise but didn’t know how without hurting one another’s
feelings.
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compromise was our time, and let me tell you that that was very hard
for me. I am involved in a travel sport, and for those of you, who
are too, you know how time consuming that is, for those of you who
don’t just imagine almost every day having practices and playing,
it’s a lot, but I wouldn’t give it up for the world. Also, I’m
a very social person, and time with my friends is something I enjoy,
but when time with my friends means sitting and focusing, it gets
complicated. When we did meet up, we were usually at the library. The
library, though, has lots of distractions, and my friends would get
frustrated with me for not paying attention, or for not listening to
them. At one point they even forced me to put noise cancelling
headphones on so I wouldn’t be distracted.
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In
addition to time, the plot line and the characters were a huge
compromise as well. Remember when I said we were writing the story to
turn into a play? Well, before we even started, we had to decide who
would play what part. The arguments were crazy, and sometimes didn’t
make much sense, but compromises were somehow always reached. The
plot line though, wasn’t as easy as the characters. There were
arguments that lasted for day, and even now that we are done, there
are still some things we haven’t really compromised on. For
example, one of the people in the class that we are performing our
play in, wanted a Platypus, and the play was in medieval times, where
platypi are never really ever mentioned. One of my friends totally
bought the idea, while my other friend and I were totally against it.
Eventually, we came to an agreement that we would edit it out if we
ever actually did something with the story, and we let her write it
in. But, we still bother each other about it, even now that we’re
done.
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To wrap up, I would like
to thank Meredith, Micaela, and our editor, Anna. Without their help
there would be no story, and without a story I wouldn’t have been
able to write my speech. They deserve a lot of credit, not only for
their writing, but for teaching me that I’m not always right, and
that compromising is the best solution to most arguments.
~Mary Mac
