Weekly Virtual Writing Session For 5/15/07

With school winding down, and some major projects out of the way, we find ourselves working on catching up on some smaller creative pieces.

This week at Borders in Hyannis MA we had four members of our weekly writing/drawing session present. (Like last week, I'm doing this writeup after the fact, but I will continue to comment on results of meeting goals the week after each actual event). Miranda and Lori attended, as well as Gynn and myself.

Goals From Last Week: Rewrite my script for the minicomic "Orcish Love Story", which needs to be expanded from eight pages to twelve. Proofread Gynn's script for her Knifeclaw Company graphic novel.

Results From Last Week: I did the complete rewrite of the script for "Orcish Love Story" and I'm pleased with the results. Only got through a small amount of the Knifeclaw Company script, but I did some decent editing on what I did get to.

This Week's Goals: Write a script for a Zephyr & Reginald: Minions for Hire "Science Safety Poster". This is a donation item that will go to my school's annual auction, along with an autographed copy of the comic. The original art on the poster will get auctioned off, and we'll do a laminated print for my classroom. We'll keep the electronic version for possible later publication. There is also a scene from Knifeclaw Company that I agreed to try rewriting. Finally, I'd like to read and review some of the comics we brought back from SPACE (I'm getting way behind on this).

Question of the Week: How many people do you share your writing with while it is still "in progress"?

For me, it's a pretty small number of people normally. My wife seems just about everything and she does formal editing/proofing on many of my projects. My friend Amy, who is my co-author for my upcoming comic series Perils of Picorna, occasionally gets to look at stories I'm working on and gives me feedback. My friend Jenn, the editor for The Edge of Propinquity will occasionally get sent a story early. I also sometimes turn to her for advice on specific scenes or bits of dialogue that are proving to be problematic. The small group I meet with at Borders on Tuesday nights occasionally gets to preview one of my drafts, and there are a couple of online friends who I have discussed trading critiques with, but have not actually done it. Most of my friends only read the finished versions.

Comments are welcome. What are you writing tonight? What are your goals? And answer this week's question if you're so inclined. And of course, if you're local, we'll be at Borders next week, so come by and say hello, and bring your latest project to work on.