First Meeting Summary and Next Meeting

Hi everyone,

We had our first meeting last friday, yay! There were 7 of us there and we did two 30 minute chunks of writing plus had some discussion about how to structure future meetings.

Here's an update on what we discussed about logistics and on how to structure future meetings (those present, please feel free to correct me or add something that I may have forgotten to mention here):

1. Most people were comfortable with an evening time slot - looking at the schedules of everyone present we found that wednesdays from 4:30 to 7:00 would work for most people. People can, of course, stop by after 4:30 or leave early as per your convenience.

2. We thought it would be neat to have one short story from our anthology to read and critique as well and to may be sandwich it between two writing sessions. We randomly picked "The Management of Grief'" by Bharati Mukherji for August 20.

3. It would be convenient to move this to a yahoo group so everybody can post and its way easier to facilitate. Future meeting times and dates will be announced on the blog website as well for those that still check in there. I manage another yahoo group for work so can set one up for us so we can get that going soon.

And finally - we decided to meet twice a month on wednesdays - Dana Street Coffee co. in Mountain View seemd to work well for everyone so the next meeting is on:

August 20, Wednesday from 4:30 - 7:00 PM at Dana St. Coffee Co. in Mountain View.

It was great to see everyone - we actually ended up getting a good table and a good spot that day - hope that continues at Dana St. Coffee co...hope to see all of you at the next meeting!

-Humaira