Some liked it very much. The others, who thought it was difficult, had to figure out a way to handle their fear and their resistance against writing. Annelie and Pirjo had to stop for a minute and reconsider their aims with the writing exercises. As a result of this incident, the joy of writing came back and they all learned how important it is to constantly reflect on how and why you are doing things. At this time they still felt safe and trusted their common strength and capability to achieve something that would not be swallowed by the floating quicksand of time.
Nobody remembers the exact moment, but suddenly the experience of time changed.
Time still ran ahead of them, but they felt uncertain about what to do and how they should manage to do it in the scheduled time. Time was in fact not endless. The women did what they had to do, but the small talk, laughs and rare moments when someone told a story or a poem that had a strong impact on their minds, these moments were gone. There was no time to let words echo in silence. In some way they lost faith in their common strength and their thoughts were already far ahead of the on-going process.