Agenda for October 19 Meeting

- Roll Call / Goals check (approx 30 minutes)

-Group discussion about breakout groups – goal is to get people into groups of 5 or less that focus on the area they are working towards.

-Discuss various types of groups

-Discuss group rules/roles

-Break out into groups (Approx 30 minutes)

-Group introductions

-Group discussion

-Freewriting/socializing/networking (approx 60 minutes)

-oneword.com exercise

-establish ground rules (talking, etc.,)

-assign peers/mentors?

 Future Meetings – Follow the same agenda? (Roll Call/Goals, Group discussion, Breakout Groups, Freewriting?)

Website Work

-Design goals

-Content ideas

-Public and private areas

-Division of labor (assign responsibilities based on time/skill)

 

Long Term Club Goals

-Broader social reaches?

-Facebook Fan Page?

-Twitter Account? – done by CDB

-Interact with other writing groups?

-Publish some sort of writing group publication?

-Does the entire club have a goal or mission?

    -How big is too big?

   -Given the large number of people drawn to social media and creative events in the RVA area, it is concievable that WriteClub could swell to fifty or so regular attendees. Do we have any plans in place for how to deal with that?

-Do we want to continue to move the locations or pick one place?

Future dicussion ideas?

-Guest speakers? Pulling speakers from within the group? Hand out writing prompts and have people volunteer to read them?