August 17th Meeting Minutes

At yesterday's meeting we decided on "Jordon's Twelve" as our writing group's name. In addition, I submitted a few suggestions to Angela at BookLocker for our book title and she liked "Tales from Room D229" best. If we can all agree to go with this title then I think the book will go to publishing as soon as I send Angela the manuscript corrections that some of you provided and a descriptive blurb of what Room D229 means to us in the front of the book. I believe that I can get these items completed by next week at the latest. If in reviewing the manuscript that I emailed to all of you a few weeks ago, if anyone else has found something that needs to be changed please send me your comments by the beginning of next week so that I can stay on schedule with BookLocker.

The September 21st and October 3rd meetings have been canceled. However, we made a decision to go forward with our writing efforts as a group since the longer we procrastinate the more we will find other things to do besides writing. Our goal is to submit a story to the group by email no later than October 12th and then be prepared to offer in-person comments and critique at the October 19th meeting.

We also decided on a new venue. The Deli just won't work for creative writing workshops similar to the ones we had in Jordon's class. The suggestion is to investigate MCC as a viable alternative. I will contact the school and see if they will extend a courtesy and allow us to met in a private room on a monthly or bi-monthly basis. If they decline our request we can always meet at MCC in the library or outside the cafeteria. We may even find an unoccupied classroom that we can duck into from time to time.

Please check out the blog. I converted the site from the Night Writers blog to this new blog titled "Jordon's Twelve" and in the process I gave it a whole new makeover that I feel better describes our group. Here is the new link: http://jordonstwelve.blogspot.com/

That's all for now. I will keep the group updated on news regarding MCC and our writing workshops. We have five weeks in which to write a story or polish off a new one and have it available for submission by email to the group. Five weeks will go by fast so don't wait until the end of September to begin writing. Let's try and get it started at least by Labor Day.