Reminder -- No Meeting This Upcoming Tuesday -- Everybody Should Be Writing!

I will be available at Chestnut Street to meet with those of you who need me (e-mail me to confirm a meeting time/place), otherwise you should be preparing 8-12pp. written excerpts for our first workshopping presentations.

***Since we meet on Tuesdays, it is important that you get your excerpts to your colleagues by Saturday night (midnight at the latest), preferably earlier than that, in order to ensure everybody has the time to read your excerpt and comment on it in a helpful way.***

Many of you are having your mid-term reviews over the next three weeks while we are doing presentations, so please choose a date for presenting that takes all that into consideration. Please don't just choose the latest possible date so that you can put off work to the last possible moment, thus forcing colleagues of yours who really do need to present later to get stuck with an earlier date.

Everybody should be writing already, but if you aren't start now. Many of you will be doing an initial reading of one of your objects, others of you will be writing more general pieces mapping out the conceptual terrain you are addressing yourself to or providing a sketch surveying the literature that precedes your own piece. What you do is up to you, everybody's process is different. Don't worry about perfection in early drafts, it is early in the process and everybody will benefit from the comments of your colleagues. What matters is that you sit down and get down to actual writing!

Sign Up Sheet for 8-12pp. Excerpt Presentations and Workshopping

Tuesday, October 4

4.15-4.40

4.40-5.05 Sheeka

5.05-5.35 Bella

5.35-6.00 Cole

6.00-6.25 Rebecca

6.25-6.50 Zoe

Tuesday, October 11

4.15-4.40 Alicia

4.40-5.05 Candace

5.05-5.35 Nadia

5.35-6.00 Emily

6.00-6.25 Hadass

6.25-6.50 Orlando

Reminder -- Library Tomorrow

Reminder to everybody -- we're meeting tomorrow at Chestnut rather than third street. Jeff's going to walk us through library research resources especially useful to thesis work. Again, it's a great idea to let Jeff know in advance what some of your topics are so he can tailor his presentation directly to your interests. It's probably not to late to give that a go. After the presentation we'll gather to talk through general issues around committees reviews and our first upcoming writing assignment for the workshop. Let's try to meet together at the courtyard by the fountain a little after four and we can overflow together in the direction of the library, shall we? Hope all's well in your worlds, d

The Latest For Tomorrow... and Later

I've been updating my information as your e-mails come in letting me know about committee changes and MA Review schedulings and so on. Things are looking pretty good in general. Remember, our next meeting all together is taking place at Chestnut. It's just more individual meetings for tomorrow. Since you all seem to be in fairly regularly contact with one another, do make sure everybody is up to speed on everything. I can't find copies of proposals for Hadass and Orlando... this is very likely my fault, but could you guys e-mail these to me again even if you have already done so? We've got six meeting scheduled for tomorrow -- even at nearly a half hour for each one we usually get a bit behind so don't get impatient, I'll get to everybody! Best to you all.

Updates --

Remember, this week and next just come in time for your individual meeting. Otherwise, keep me up to date on developments, writing drafts, and so on via e-mail or through this blog. Also, though this is a couple of weeks in advance, I want to remind everybody that on week four we are meeting at the library at the Chestnut Street campus at regular class time, Jeff is going to take you through the collections and research tools available to you. Some of you might want to e-mail him in advance about your projects and he may use your topics as examples in his presentation -- it's usually much more useful than you might expect. I think I'm still missing somebody for individual meetings, and it's getting late to sign up for tomorrow (I won't be able to check the web tomorrow, I'm teaching all day, so maybe any stragglers can e-mail me to arrange making a meeting time a little earlier or later the following week -- which is otherwise all booked up now). Hope all is well with you all -- I realize meeting individually rather disperses us as a cohort here at the beginning, but believe me, we'll knit together a writerly community soon enough. d

Sign Up Sheet for Individual Meetings Over the Next Two Weeks

Tuesday, September 6

4.15-4.40 Emily

4.40-5.05 Cole

5.05-5.35 Sheeka

5.35-6.00 Candace

6.00-6.25

6.25-6.50

Tuesday, September 13

4.15-4.40 Rebecca

4.40-5.05 Orlando

5.05-5.35 Hadass

5.35-6.00 Zoe

6.00-6.25 Alicia

6.25-6.50 Nadia