Motley Figures and Bright Prospects

Anna and Ben,

I have a dream. It goes a little something like this:

Each of us should post a plethora of (our own...and found) writing about books/literature/poetry/philosophy/science, anything intellectual, creative, academic, political -- basically, I just want good writing (i.e., anything written by us). We could make this a separate project from our book club, if you would like. I don't want to put any pressure on either of you (or myself, really). I understand if you don't want to get all gung-ho with me, or if you just don't want to put a lot of time into it. This would be a long-term, continuous project (not just this summer).

My goal is to post as much as possible on books/art/stuff I like. I need to practice writing, and I see creating quality blogs, Squidoo pages, etc as a good way of getting experience "publishing" in a fun, non-threatening environment. We have control over the privacy settings of the pages we make...

I also think it would be great if each of us included papers and essays that we write for school on topics that we're interested in (e.g., Ben and I both wrote about Ulysses for school; Anna has presumably written a lot on English Lit/Critical Theory; Anna could post political stuff; Ben could post his thesis...) You'll notice that I started adding to our book list in the upper right-hand corner. Some of these works maybe only I would write about; some of them (e.g., Werther) we might all post on; each of you could add stuff that the other two of us might not have read... I don't know, I just think this is a good idea. I'm a little hesitant about posting school papers where anyone can see them and plagiarize them, but I don't mind sharing with you two (or with people I know and trust). I don't know how we would organize all this stuff, but there are lots of cool things you can do with blogs and web-design; we could figure it out as we go, and as our collection of material grows.

Let's not worry about trying to be too profound at first. Just post -- anything. It could be your favorite quotes, your thoughts on a passage, a stream of consciousness ramble about the movie you just saw or the party you just went to, a rant about something you're passionate about--I don't care! As long as we write. Hmmm, well.... I guess that's it for now.

And don't think that I'm getting on your cases for not writing anything yet. I haven't read or written anything about Werther yet either. And we don't have to have a regular time (e.g., once a week) for submitting posts, unless you want to. I know we're all busy. I'm stressed from my internship. That's why I'm so wired right now, if you couldn't tell.

Looking forward to hearing from y'all soon. (Ben--does your farm even have internet? Dirty hippies...)