I am a huge fan of this idea... the only problem is I might end up being a flake on submitting stuff. I do a lot of writing for work and for fun, and I'm not sure if I'd have the time to do more. But I'd love to be involved and read some of the stuff that goes up.

Prelim total: 10

As for hosts, two thusfar:
Yahoo! Groups
Typepad*

* Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Typepad cost money?

Prelim total: 12

OK, I'm just going to set an arbitrary goal of 15 people before I'll call this thing a reality. (Subject to me ignoring it completely if we miss the mark.)

At the moment, the hosting options are:

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• Yahoo! Groups
  
• Wordpress
  
• Blogger
  
• Typepad
  
• Livejournal (continuing the blog tip)
  

Someone will have to clue me in on how to make this work on a blog, since I'm more used to uploading files onto a Y!G and sharing that way. I guess that people'd post their pieces as a blog post -- do we need to worry about word count  limits? And I suppose readers would make critiques in the comments section?

El Person -- tell me more about this newsletter idea! E.g. what's the content, who's the audience?

More general question: Would people post whenever they have something they want to share? Or should we set up some kinda schedule, like, a couple people per week? In this second case, I think that'd help the authors get the attention they'd deserve -- but then again, a schedule might not fit w/ some people's free/leisure time, and I don't want to turn this into too much of a class if people aren't down with that. THEN AGAIN then again, I know I'm more productive when I have a deadline, however nominal it is.

Anyway, feel free to kick around ideas!