Eddie and Goob

Hey guys,

I've emailed you the first two chapters of my book, Eddie and Goob. At this point, I have just finished a first draft of the entire book. Six episodic chapters total. Any comments are welcome and greatly appreciated.

Dave

New Schedule

May 23, Dave Revere

June 6, Jason Kurtz

June 20, Andrew Cochran

July 4, Bill Kennedy

July 18, Riley Conway

August 1, Daniel Campbell

August 15, Christopher Campbell

August 29, Alan Markham

Write Fu Review

Hey guys,

While we're all still reading and reviewing Alan's piece, let's take this next week to review how the group has worked thus far and determine the next schedule. We've cycled through all eight of us now. How has everyone thought it's gone? What has everyone's experience been? I'd like to hear from all of you.

One thing obviously has been the challenge of all of us finding the time to make comments on each reading within the two week time period. To complicate that, the two-week spacing in between new posts has been a little bendy. Has this made serious trouble for anyone?

Do you feel this group has actually benefited you and your writing? Is everyone still in for round two?

Are there things that aren't working so well for you? Any tweaks to suggest?

Is this comment format of interacting with your story useful? Do you like it being discussed in a chain of comments like this? The idea of it was to stimulate a kind of discussion about your story. But it's really more of just one person posting their independent set of notes after the other. That's actually just fine with me - but I'd be open to any suggestions.

How is the two week time length working out for everyone? Do we need to space it out more?

How about the length of the manuscripts. Should we shorten them to around ten or twelve pages to give everyone more time? Or maybe you feel 20 pages not enough?

Does anyone think nothing needs to be changed at all? Just keep doing what we're doing?

Any other thoughts, opinions, ideas you have - bring them on. My hope is to post a new schedule starting Sunday, May 23.

On another note: Andy's coming to alumni weekend during residency, and I thought it'd be a shame if we didn't all get together and have a little write-fu reunion during that time! Night would be preferable because we could drink. But if not, at least a lunch or something! Is everyone up for that? Bill and Alan, are you planning on coming out for the alumni weekend? Now you have another good reason why you should!

Albert No-name and the Valley of Doom

I'm emailing the text of this piece. Andy's seen a similar version of it (sorry Andy) but I'm curious to see what a this group up of guys thinks of it. I'm not looking for anything in particular.

Thanks.

Thanks for the REDUCTION critique--I've received a tremendous amount of insight from the comments. Most helpful were questions about Agnes, which steered me to research cults and cult leaders. Also thanks for making me think about the possibilities of male...uh...dangly-thing reductions.

I've run out of the obvious body parts to reduce: ears, nose, hands, feet, etc. Anyone have other cool ideas?

Cheers,
Chris