The Workermonkey

Tuesday, June 29, 2004

Stay focused... 

# posted by Brancibeer @ 6/29/2004 06:59:00 PM

From what I here, the last meeting really wasn’t a meeting. Next time don’t even bother to attempt a rational discussion when you’ve been drinking, smoking and everything else. If you cant arrange your schedule to fit this in, or cant sit down for an hour without constantly itching for a beer, then your obviously not serious about this project- so fuck off. It’s easy to be negative, but very hard to make progress. If your not going to contribute anything helpful, or think this is going to be a cakewalk, stop wasting peoples time. It’s simply a waste of time, and its fucking frustrating for those of us truly trying. Fuck….and I wasn’t even there.

On a positive note I thought the stories were pretty good (contrary to the conclusion that “we suck at writing”). They need a lot of work of course, but it’s a start. One point that shown through is that we need to decide which stories we are going to really develop the characters in. Otherwise we will get a lot of repeat throughout the whole thing. And these character-developing stories will need to be our base (first stories in the book). Then we can work from there to build the detail even further. So lets start thinking about that.

Dealing with editing and reviewing- we can email the stories to each other when their ready (authors discretion). Then a one-on-one discussion between author and reviewer would probably be most beneficial. I know this was just a test run, but all of the stories went way too fast and breezed over a lot of things. Slow it down, take your time, and develop your story.

This is not a fucking homework assignment that you can scribble down 10 minutes before class to receive your C- (hey its passing). This is writing about your life and your friends. You have to want it. Have patience.

1 comments

Boys I'd say your book is doomed. All I hear is bickering, and no clear goal. The analogy to homework assignments is dead on from what I see, as there is very little commitment, but that may be due to a lack of knowing what to commit to. Granted, I'm on the outside and haven't heard a meeting, but I feel you never settled on a vision to work towards. Nor was the "profit vs. written record" and "who's the audience" fights settled to everyone's satisfaction. Well, good luck anyway, but don't kill each other while you're at it.

By  Anonymous, at Wednesday, June 30, 2004 3:55:00 PM  

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