Meetings

We need a better model for our meetings. They are productive, but unfortunately eat our time. And working 9 to 5, neither of us have that much to spare. Often we write things and then pass them off to each other, but it's difficult to get the most out of collaborating when you aren't right there with someone to explain your work, or to questioning theirs.

When we do find the time for meetings we do well, but only thanks to our systems. For writing, one person will draft the article, story or poem as best they can. Then the other will sit down and read it. At this point writer and editor will go over the piece, at times line by line, the editor explaining what he understood and the author discussing what he meant. Changes are then made on the spot to clarify, simplify, reword etc. It's extremely time consuming to mini-workshop everything like this, but we've found it gets the best results.

Our second task is putting together the layout of the magazine. For this use a "storyboard" notebook from one of Adam's old film classes, and approach the layout of the magazine like scenes from a film. We construct the content and images on every page, like frames, to directly correspond to the one's before and after it. Another way to think of it is that it's essentially one long, unbroken scroll, that when completed is accordion-ed into a magazine format, (examples coming soon).

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- Jason