This week was largely desk-based, with two quite different tasks, each with its own challenges.

The first was a project from Aoife: creating instructional guides to accompany Fighting Words NI's primary and post-primary workshop videos on YouTube. These digital workshops are designed to help teachers bring creative writing into the classroom in a way that stays true to Fighting Words' ethos, and they come paired with worksheets. My job was to translate the videos into timestamped, easy-to-follow guides that teachers could use to incorporate the workshops more seamlessly into their lesson plans. It was probably the most technically demanding task I've been given so far, since it required cross-referencing the video content and the worksheet simultaneously while ensuring the final guide was clear and practically useful rather than merely descriptive.

The second task came from Emma, another member of the team. She had recently run a community outreach event and needed the students' work organized, which meant typing out scanned handwritten stories and sorting both the writing and any accompanying drawings into four categories based on the theme each child had written about. Deciphering everyone's handwriting was its own small adventure, but it was joyful work. What stood out was how the same prompt had produced such wildly different stories—each one completely its own, shaped by a different imagination.