Notes for Oct 9

Our formalized proposal is due Oct 16.

We want to get all character bios and the plot outline posted on the blog by this Thursday, Oct 11.  We've already noticed that we rely on what everyone else has written to create our characters.  This indicates that when we begin assigning various sections of the book for the public to write, we should give them about a week to write their section, and then another week to revise it based on what they see others writing for their sections.  (This will mean that they have to post their sections online someone for all to see.  Should this be in a blog or public google docs?)

On Thursday, we will begin assigning various members of the group to flesh out two (or so) chapters of the outlined plot.  This doesn't mean write the chapter, of course; each section just needs to have a basic beginning, middle, and end outline so that another author can write that section more fully later.  (We're going from very basic to more and more specific until we finally have a finished novel.)  We want to have these more detailed outlines done by Saturday.

We need to get more social proof, and we need to get more people excited about writing sections of the novel for us later.  Heather said we might ask Emily Dyer, a creative writing instructor on campus, to get her students to help us out on at least a few sections.  We might want to contact more instructors and ask them to do the same.

We'll be meeting Saturday, Oct 13 at about 7 PM (more details to follow) to watch The Matrix (edited), which relates to our novel.  We will also finalize a timeline that day (when do we want to have outlines ready for the public, when do they need to have their sections done, etc.), and figure out our finalized proposal for Tuesday.  At some point we also want to create character arcs that show how each character changes throughout the novel.

Finally, we want to present our idea to the class, and we want to have it recorded so we can put it on the blog/Facebook/YouTube (or whatever) to get more people excited about working on this project.

Keep inviting people to get involved so we have lots of writers to help us out later.