On The Third Day Of Grading My Students Gave To Me:
Discovery: There is nothing more thrilling than a student who discovers something new and exciting about their story while they are writing it. I’ve had such a case this term with a student who found a theme on which he could build subtext that was not present at the time they started to write. They came onto to it, recognized it, and over used it as it happens with most writers. However, I give the student props for aspiring to make their story interesting.
Repetition: It is as if they forget what they just wrote or perhaps they think it’s so good that they need to write it over and over again. Repetition makes a script slow and bogged down with unnecessary words.
No Christmas gifts yet from them.
Sometimes a Good Notion 