Critique Circle #1 (North American-centric; 9PM Central; Last Monday of the Month)

Thanks! Marking it on my calender right now!

Birol,

Have you chosen next week's author yet?

Copying from email per a request from Birol

Okay, gang. I know I changed things a bit since my last e-mail. Mostly, that was in response to the whole majority rule thing. Here's how things are going to work now:

1. Anyone who wants to be critiqued let me know by -- I'll extend it until 5PM Central tomorrow (Friday), but I can't push it much beyond that.
2. I will randomly assign everyone who wishes to be critiqued a date/month.
3. I will honor requests not to be assigned March, since that's right here, but beyond that...no guarantees who will receive which month.
4. If you are assigned a month, that is your month and you are responsible for it being covered. If something happens -- family emergency, you decide your entire manuscript is drek and ritualistically burn it on a sacrificial altar to the Greek muses, case of nerves, whatever -- it is your responsibility to trade with someone else and make certain the month is covered.
5. I will assign as many months as names are submitted. For example, right now, I have nine names, which will take us through November.
6. When we run out of assigned months, we can do this again or I can just start adding names on a first-come/first-serve basis as people feel ready. Your choice. Let me know.

Actually, the November thing leads to another question: Crit groups often go on hiatus during the holidays, because it becomes One More Thing to be dealt with amidst Thanksgiving (yes, I'm being US-centric), Christmas, families, shopping, etc., and the dates for November and December fall right into the middle of the hectic holiday travel time. For example, I already know I plan to be on the road the last Monday of December, which is the Monday between Christmas and New Year's, and the last Monday of November is the Monday after Thanksgiving. I'd like to suggest that we go ahead an plan now on taking November and December off, resuming our critiquing in January. We could still meet informally in November and December, but not critique. What do you think?

Also, could someone please copy and paste this e-mail to the Critique thread in Novels? My internet access is currently limited; AW is a blocked site from this particular connection and I really don't feel like using my cell phone to retype all of this. Please and thank you.

The names I have right now are:

One Writer
Ms. Jem
Calliopenjo
K. Taylor
Collectonian (not March)
EclipsesMuse
SaraP
Lute (not March)
MAP (not March)

I agree on taking November and December off. November, both for holidays and NaNo , and December for sure for the holidays.

I thought about adding my name into the mix, but I can't always be there to critique others for it, so decided not to as it wouldn't be fair.

I'm actually not busy in Nov/Dec, but whatever you guys decide..

I'm good with all that, except maybe if my name comes up for March. Will all the name/month pairs be known in advance?

Oh, good. Less pressure for me to write more.

Thank you Birol.

No worries - quite an incentive if you ask me.

It's ok, Birol, you can tag me onto the end of the list. Who knows how the coming months will go anyway

Birol said:

And here I'd just made the decision to redraw everything except March.

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I'm confused. So you're going to re-make the list next month?
I may be going to Europe at the end of May (where 9pm central is 4am...)