The Pit Hole

There's always those times where a giant pit hole in the road of your project goal will show up. Sometimes, if you're going fast enough (with confidence) you'll take it and just breeze right over it. Sometimes you might even see it before you get to it so you'll slow down not to hurt yourself. Yet even then sometimes you might even get stuck in such a pit hole that you can't see your way out even though in the end you realized it was simply as forcing yourself out of it.

This is what happened to me yesterday. I hit a block. A point in time where I start to worry if what I'm doing is really what I want to do. Or of I'm doing it correctly or it will comply with restrictions set in stone in some place at some time.

Yesterday, I talked with Natalia, our present psychology guru. She brought up many points that encourged me and developed more ideas but yet when I walked away, I felt like I lost something. Sleeping on it, I realized that my project can still work, and that I will find a way to work this out. Natalia had enough faith in me that she wanted to meet every week to discuss my project.

A few things that will initially be addressed is if I want to stay with realism or venture into a more imaginative spectrum. Natalia believes that replacing the main character with a creature will allow the child to associate more with the story instead of another child. I agree with her mostly, yet also without a certain realism, how can I truly get my point across. I can't have this project be all smiles and rainbows, that isn't what it is addressing. This project is addressing the feeling of fear, dread, or alarm that one might get when they see something in the corner of their eye in the darkness. The feeling when you're watching a scary movie that you just want to turn off but you can not because you don't want to leave the safety of the sofa or bed.

This project needs to gradually get darker and darker. The creature needs to become scarier and scarier each time the child plays it. That is my thinking. It is supplying the child gently to their fears. Not throwing them in there and hope they survive. It would break instead of build them.