Amina and I are at Gimme, working on more UpstageProject documents. Everyone in the world in Ithaca is coming through this coffeehouse – in their variations of dressing for thirty degree weather.

She’s writing on big sheets of newsprint and I’m typing, and we’re dividing up editorial responsibilities between the blog, articles/essays, and reviews/interviews departments.

I feel like a broken record continuing to say this, but I had always assumed that we would launch this site like a baby bird and just let it struggle and sink or swim – but, with Amina’s help and her planning brain, we’re giving it so many good resources. We’re being planned parents. Very responsible.

So we’ve divided up the site into three major sections – Blog, Reviews/Interviews, and Articles/Essays – and we’re listing frequency of posting, editorial responsibilities, writing responsibilities, and resources needed for each one.

I sometimes am intimidated by making planning documents. I would rather just start working and realize what planning we haven’t done later, when it stabs us in the back.

But it’s nice to try doing something the right way for once.