Welcome Back?

Dubby, I hope your summer is going well. We have a new member (finally!), so Dubby, meet Papa Smurf, Pappa, meet Dubby. I don't know about you guys, but I'm ready to get some writing done.

I've been trying to clean the blog up a bit, so I've created tags to help separate post types. The new rules (!) are as follows (and are always subject to being broken, so no stress): if you post an update simply give your post the tag "update," if you post some writing, give it the tag "writing," and also add the tag with your user name, so that we can look up all the pieces that you've written if we are so inclined. Also, if you post a prompt or challenge just add the tag "prompt." When you create a post and go to the box to add a label, if you click "show all" on the far right you can simply select the appropriate tags without having to remember what they all are. Hopefully this will help keep the blog a little neater and more maneuverable.

Also, since PapaSmurf just joined us I thought I'd give a run down of how we do things (because it's soooo complicated). Basically one of us posts a prompt or challenge with a "due date," and we all attempt to write a piece along those guidelines and post by that date. That being said, we are pretty relaxed, so if you want to stray off topic, or switch between poetry to prose, or if you can't post in time, no sweat. You can post early, you can post late, you can skip a post. This should be fun, maybe a bit challenging, but hopefully not too stressful. We're all pretty busy with work, class, etc. Once someone has posted, the rest of us can read that post and then praise/critique it through a comment. The critique is mainly to help us improve our work, or to praise something that we used that especially helped. So try to note details and the like so that we can take that critique and use the suggestions and praise in our work that follows. Although we all love a little blind praise and much fawning, so feel free to deviate.

I'm thinking we should stick with another freestyle post for our next assignment, just to get us back in the swing of things. Any comments?

-Pliny