A Writer's Notebook, Day One-Thousand-Six-Hundred-And-Eighty-Five

I had another meeting about the podcast today.  For the most part we were just discussing the most recent set of edits of the preview episode, discussing whether we felt it was ready at this point.  Of course, there are always things that can be tuned or adjusted, if you want to keep futzing around, and it really just takes a decision that it is ready.  Our next step is to send it out to a few people that we trust for feedback, and, of course, getting to work on the rest of the episodes.  I think it will be good to put this piece aside for a bit.  I would imagine we might still do a bit more work on it, once we hear back from our first listeners, and I am also expecting that we might hear different things when we return to it.  We've been working on it for a while now, have heard the recordings many times already, and it is easy to stop actually listening to what is there and just thinking it is the same as what is remembered, even when it has changed in some way.  Beyond that, I am excited to hear what other people think of it.  I mean, I think it works, but it will be really good to have the opinions of a few people from outside the project.

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