I now realize that Writing Our Way Out (or any other work) could not truly communicate the different time periods that the authors wrote about in their stories. No matter the amount of context and detail provided, readers will always have less of an understanding of the circumstances in which the stories take place than the writers themselves. I saw this demonstrated in a lot of the conversations; It was as if we had missed a large part of what seemed to come naturally to Kelvin and (especially) Terrence. No amount of words can communicate any lived experience authentically, the author must choose what to leave out, which is another great realization I had during the discussion.