I meet with a group of fellow creators every Monday morning. The meeting consists of a time of sharing inspiration, challenges and goals for the next week. This is followed by a short presentation from one member. Below is my share for this week and my notes from the presentation.
Sharing
Summary:
Goals for last week: publish chapter 3, get comments working on blog, draft of chapter 4.
Inspirations
* Got some good feedback from co-workers. A few people have said they are hooked and want more.
* One person even gave me some criticism.
Challenges
* A lot of re-writing for chapter 3 left me without much time to edit and refine.
* Email notifications might not be working?
* Computer battery not working great
Goals
1) publish chapter 4 on Friday
2) get comments working on the blog / make the switch to Medium?
3) rough draft of chapter 5
Presentation
Ben presented on lessons he has learned from Elements of Style by William Strunk & EB White
- Place yourself in the background
* draw attention to the writing not the writer - Do not overstate
* when you overstate, readers will be instantly on guard - Avoid the use of qualifiers
* "little", "pretty", "very", "so" - Do not affect a breezy manner
* i.e. - writing slang with neither provocation nor ingenuity - Use orthodox spelling
* not doing so distracts and exhausts the reader - Do not explain too much
* it is seldom advisable to tell all
* let the conversation disclose the speakers manner and condition - Do not inject opinion
* "no one actually cares about you" - Do not take shortcuts at the cost of clarity
