Facilitator: Jane. The meeting began at 7:00 PM
Present: Jane, Richard, and Muhammad
Approval of Minutes: The minutes of 6/10 and 6/24 were approved.
Announcements/Planning:
- Discussion of proposed Reading Event in October.
- Muhammad mentioned that he needed someone to cover for him as Facilitator for the second meeting in August. Jane suggested that Leah would be the person to contact and that an email may be sent to her asking whether she and Muhammad could switch dates in August and September.
In-meeting Writing: Jane provided the prompt: "Olivia! What do you carry in your handbag?" Three different responses were read and discussed.
Reading and Critique of Writing Submissions: Richard read a 10 page fictional submission, "The Strike", further elaborating his theme on the necessity of the villain - if there are no villains there can not be heroes. Suggestions on how he can take his work to the next level of submitting for publication were discussed.
Writers' Reports: Muhammad reported on progress made in his dream study project. Some of it is a continuation of his paper read at the anthropology conference in April in Portland, OR. He also discussed some further, minor changes done on "Benjamin Franklin and the Genealogy of Writers Groups".
Meeting adjourned at 8:45 PM
Recorder: Muhammad, with thanks to Jane for a correction.